Child Abuse More Likely In Hailey's Situation

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1) What are some of the risk factors in the scenario that might make child abuse more likely in Hailey's situation? First, Hailey is an infant making this automatically an individual risk factor for victimization because she is younger than four years old as the article states. Her brother is stressing her parents out because of his medical needs, her parents are tense because they have both been laid off, and lastly, her grandmother has died making matters worse, these three situations are all family risk factors of perpetration. 2) What are some of the protective factors evident in this scenario? In the beginning when the grandmother was alive she acted as a family protective factor. The teacher would be a community protective factor recognizing

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