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scienceeasy · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

While the number of reports of child abuse have increased from around 669,000 in 1976 to well over 3 million in 2009, how many reports of abuse are found to be unsubstantiated?

a. almost one half
b. up to 25 percent
c. practically none
d. more than two-thirds

Question 2

In reviewing hospital security tapes, several parents are observed trying to do physical harm to their children. These parents may be diagnosed with ________, a rare mental disorder in which parents fabricate or induce illness or injury in their children.

a. child abuse syndrome
b. schizophrenia
c. psychopathy
d. Munchausen-by-proxy syndrome