{"id":1076,"date":"2013-09-20T10:33:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T10:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2016-01-04T10:36:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T10:36:48","slug":"day-care-ritual-abuse-claims-vs-the-cosby-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1076","title":{"rendered":"Day-care ritual-abuse claims vs. &#8216;The Cosby Show&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1077\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/130920Douglas.jpg\" alt=\"130920Douglas\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/>Sept. 20, 2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cIn 1984 in particular we see a turning point in the media representation of American motherhood. Two major media events exemplified the cultural contradictions in which working mothers were caught:<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cOn one end of the spectrum, the McMartin day-care child-molestation scandal (followed by a barrage of similar scandals), and on the other end the spectrum, the premiere and runaway success of \u2018The Cosby Show.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cThe former served as the direst warning of what happens when mothers go to work and entrust their children to others. The latter suggested that you could work at a demanding job, express frequent exasperation with your kids and threaten to murder them on\u00a0 a regular basis, and yet have a loving husband and children and be a terrific mother&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=ascXLyN1E7QC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=mommy+myth&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=fyYhUpS5NKamsQSy0YDADA&amp;ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q=mommy%20myth&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Mommy Myth<\/em><\/a><em>: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has\u00a0Undermined Women\u201d by Susan J. Douglas and Meredith W. Michaels (2004)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. 20, 2013 \u201cIn 1984 in particular we see a turning point in the media representation of American motherhood. Two major media events exemplified the cultural contradictions in which working mothers were caught: \u201cOn one end of the spectrum, the McMartin day-care child-molestation scandal (followed by a barrage of similar scandals), and on the other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1078,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions\/1078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}