| A | B |
| Domestic Violence | Violent behavior that occurs among family members, usually in the same household |
| intimate partner violence | Violent behavior that occurs among partners in a romantic relationship |
| women | who is more likely to be the victims of IPV (page 461) |
| Twenty five | Majority of Americans who have experienced IPV in their lifetimes first experienced it by (page 463) |
| omission | definition that they hurt their children by withholding something important from them. |
| Neglect | parents who mistreat their children fall into four categories that are officially tracked in the United States: physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse and |
| sexual | Parents who abuse their children: Physical, emotional, & |
| they become parents themselves | Surveillance bias is the tendency for past victims of child maltreatment to be under great suspicion of perpetrating child maltreatment when |
| emotional abuse | is the most common form of elder abuse at nearly double the prevalence rates for the other forms. |
| girls | who is slightly more likely to be victims of child maltreatment than boys. (page 476) |
| mentally ill | Psychopathological parents maltreat their children because they are |
| Intimate terrorism | A consistent and pervasive pattern of intimate partner violence |
| race/ethnicity | IPV varies substantially by |
| emotional | Parents who Neglect their children: Physical & |
| Native American | who has the highest IPV in the US (Page 462) |