Question: Abused women must understand that: Question options: Psycho-social abuse affects children and is a criminal act in the broader community and they must report abuse to authorities. B. Secrecy over time can be harmful if abuse is not reported to other family members or authorities because secrecy allows the abuse to continue over a longer period of time. C. Power and control play an important role in the relationship with an abusive partner, such as what is seen in the power and control wheel. D. Family members should be made aware of the abusive process and intervention is necessary for a family to go back to being functional as stipulated by the structural functionalist theory.