California Child Abuse and Neglect Definitions: Types, Laws, and Reporting WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS

California Child Abuse and Neglect Definitions: Types, Laws, and Reporting WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS 1. Sexual Assault - ANSWER Includes rape, incest, sodomy, lewd or lascivious acts upon a child, or child molestation. 2. Sexual exploitation - ANSWER Refers to any of the following: depicting a minor engaged in obscene acts; preparing, selling, or distributing obscene matter that depicts minors; or employing a minor to perform obscene acts. 3. Reasonable suspicion - ANSWER Means that it is objectively reasonable for a person to entertain a suspicion based on facts that could cause a reasonable person to suspect child abuse or neglect. 4. Persons Responsible for the Child - ANSWER Includes the child's parent or guardian. 5. Exceptions to dependency - ANSWER Serious physical harm does not include reasonable and age-appropriate spanking to the buttocks where there is no evidence of serious physical injury. 6. Dependent child criteria - ANSWER A child is considered dependent when they have been left without any provision for support. 7. Reporting standards - ANSWER A mandatory reporter shall make a report whenever they have knowledge of or observe a child whom they suspect has been the victim of child abuse or neglect. 8. Dependency exceptions - ANSWER A child will not be found to be a dependent child solely due to the failure of the parent to seek court orders for custody. 9. Judicial intervention - ANSWER The court shall not assume jurisdiction unless necessary to protect the child from suffering serious physical harm or illness. 10. Sexual assault definition - ANSWER 'Sexual assault' does not include voluntary conduct if there are no indicators of abuse, unless the conduct is between a person aged 21 or older and a minor who is younger than age 16. 11. Physical Abuse - ANSWER A child may be considered dependent under circumstances where the child has suffered, or there is a substantial risk that the child will suffer, serious physical harm inflicted nonaccidentally upon the child by the child's parent or guardian. 12. Emotional Abuse - ANSWER A child is considered dependent if they are suffering serious emotional damage or are at substantial risk of suffering serious emotional damage. 13. Dependent child - ANSWER A child suffering severe anxiety, depression, withdrawal, or untoward aggressive behavior toward self or others due to the conduct of the parent or guardian. 14. Mandated reporter - ANSWER Any person required to report when they have knowledge of or reasonably suspect that a child is suffering serious emotional damage. 15. Severe Physical Abuse - ANSWER Any single act of abuse that causes physical trauma of sufficient severity that, if left untreated, would cause permanent physical disfigurement, permanent physical disability, or death. 16. Child Abuse or Neglect - ANSWER Includes physical injury or death inflicted by other than accidental means upon a child by another person; sexual abuse; neglect; the willful harming or injuring of a child; and unlawful corporal punishment or injury. 17. Neglect - ANSWER A child may be considered dependent if the child has suffered, or there is a substantial risk that the child will suffer, serious physical harm or illness due to the failure or inability of the parent or guardian to adequately supervise or protect the child. 18. Severe Neglect - ANSWER The negligent failure of a person having the care or custody of a child to protect the child from severe malnutrition or medically diagnosed nonorganic failure to thrive. 19. General Neglect - ANSWER The negligent failure of a person having the care or custody of a child to provide adequate food, clothing, shelter, medical care, or supervision where no physical injury to the child has occurred. 20. Sexual Abuse - ANSWER A child is considered dependent if they have been sexually abused; there is a substantial risk that the child will be sexually abused; or the parent or guardian has failed to adequately protect the child from sexual abuse. 21. Commercially Sexually Exploited Children - ANSWER Children who are sexually trafficked or who receive food or shelter in exchange for or who are paid to perform sexual acts, and whose parent or guardian failed to protect them.