April 26, 2013 By 1997, when the college textbook “Family Violence Across the Lifespan” was first published, the most grievous excesses of the day-care ritual-abuse panic had passed (although it would be two more years before Little Rascals prosecutors dropped a final, unrelated charge against Bob Kelly). The authors, social scientists at Pepperdine University, devoted … Continue reading ‘Satanic ritual abuse’ loses its place in textbook