Which statement best describes the occurrence of maltreatment?

a. The intensity of the violence always increases with time.

b. There is a great deal of loyalty to the offenders.

c. Children want to get away from the family of violence.

d. Children in violent households only know violence.

b is the answer

b. There is a great deal of loyalty to the offenders.

Explanation:

There is a a little change in the rate of substantiated child maltreatment in the past several years.

In 2017 it is remarkably lower than 1990.

It has been decrease to 9 per 1000 children from 13 to 1000.

Since 2000 the rate of physical, psychological, sexual or emotional abuse have decreased.

The maltreatment rates are higher in younger children than older age children.

In maltreatment rate, children of ages 16 to 17 are lower than the children ages 0 to 3.

The rate of maltreatment of smaller children is 3 times higher than bigger ones