List and give examples of the four forms of child maltreatment. Who is most likely to commit each form of child maltreatment?

What will be an ideal response?

Child maltreatment takes the following forms:
– Physical abuse. Assaults, such as kicking, biting, shaking, punching, or stabbing, that inflict
physical injury
– Sexual abuse. Fondling, intercourse, exhibitionism, commercial exploitation through prostitution or production of pornography, and other forms of sexual exploitation
– Neglect. Failure to meet a child's basic needs for food, clothing, medical attention, education, or supervision
– Emotional abuse. Acts that could cause serious mental or behavioral disorders, including social isolation, repeated unreasonable demands, ridicule, humiliation, intimidation, or terrorizing
Parents commit more than 80 percent of abusive incidents. Other relatives account for about 5 percent. The remainder are perpetrated by parents' unmarried partners, school officials, camp counselors, and other adults. Mothers engage in neglect more often than fathers, whereas fathers engage in sexual abuse more often than mothers. Maternal and paternal rates of physical and emotional abuse are fairly similar. And in an especially heartrending 18 percent of cases, parents jointly commit the abusive acts. Infants and young preschoolers are at greatest risk for neglect, preschool and school-age children for physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. But each type occurs at every age.