"gail realizes that her son's family is struggling financially since he has been laid off. she sees that her son and his wife are under a great deal of stress trying to give their children the things they need. she notices that her son and his wife argue frequently and recognizes signs of depression in her daughter-in-law. gail wants to ease their burden, so she gives her son a loan to them until he finds work. this is an example of prevention of child maltreatment."

This is an example of PRIMARY prevention of child maltreatment."

Explanation:

Primary prevention:

Primary prevention are those steps taken on order to make sure that maltreatment is prevented before it happens. This is accessible to everyone who is part of the community.

These steps are meant to awaken public , service providers, and decision makers about the issue of child maltreatment. Universally the things that are done to rectify this issue under primary prevention are the following :

-Positive parenting is encourage through public services

- Programs are created for parents such as support groups which deals with child development and roles and responsibilities of parenting.

- Programs also that helps with family support and strengthening which also provide resources that strengthen positive interventions from family members.

Gail is intervening as a family member to extend the support which will prevent maltreatment before it starts to her struggling son's family and that is a positive intervention from a family member.

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