Author Question: When Melba came home from work early one day recently, she found her thirteen year old son engaging ... (Read 52 times)

Arii_bell

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 596
When Melba came home from work early one day recently, she found her thirteen year old son engaging in sexual relations with a fifteen year old girl in the living room. She slapped her son across the face so hard that she chipped one of his front teeth with a ring she was wearing. She had never struck him before and the family has always seemed well adjusted. The dentist, Dr. Drew, called the local child protective services agency. Which one of the following statements concerning this case is TRUE?
 
  A) If Melba is criminally charged, given the fact the child was injured, no state court will find that Melba had a parental privilege to discipline her child as she saw fit.
  B) A parent cannot be charged with battery on his or her own child.
  C) The agency will seek to terminate Melba's parental rights based on this incident.
  D) The dentist is a mandatory reporter and was under a legal duty to report the incident to the appropriate child protective services agency.

Question 2

Located in every state, CASA is a children and court resource that trains court-appointed volunteer advocates to work with abused and endangered children.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false



joshbk44

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 340
Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

TRUE



Related Topics

Need homework help now?

Ask unlimited questions for free

Ask a Question
 

Did you know?

Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.

Did you know?

Never take aspirin without food because it is likely to irritate your stomach. Never give aspirin to children under age 12. Overdoses of aspirin have the potential to cause deafness.

Did you know?

Allergies play a major part in the health of children. The most prevalent childhood allergies are milk, egg, soy, wheat, peanuts, tree nuts, and seafood.

Did you know?

When blood is deoxygenated and flowing back to the heart through the veins, it is dark reddish-blue in color. Blood in the arteries that is oxygenated and flowing out to the body is bright red. Whereas arterial blood comes out in spurts, venous blood flows.

Did you know?

Only 12 hours after an egg cell is fertilized by a sperm cell, the egg cell starts to divide. As it continues to divide, it moves along the fallopian tube toward the uterus at about 1 inch per day.

For a complete list of videos, visit our video library