{"id":1481,"date":"2015-08-10T19:35:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T19:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2016-01-24T13:06:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T13:06:56","slug":"at-last-book-lays-bare-satanic-ritual-abuse-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1481","title":{"rendered":"At last, book lays bare ‘satanic ritual abuse’ era"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"150810BeckCover\"Aug. 10, 2015<\/p>\n

Since I undertook this blog in 2011, I\u2019ve been waiting for a mass-market book that recalls the \u201csatanic ritual abuse\u201d day-care era with authority, insight and thoroughness.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe Believe the Children: A Moral Panic in the 1980s<\/a>\u201d comes pretty darn close to meeting that standard. (I do wish author Richard Beck had addressed the significant post-panic contributions of\u00a0Richard Noll<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Allen Frances<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be posting excerpts from the book and later an interview with Beck.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I\u2019ve been pleased to see the reviews in the news media \u2013 so far, all largely appreciative.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201c…This book does a devil of a job correcting… all the lies and self-deceptions, so credulously believed in the 1980s….\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 From \u201c<\/em>Child Abuse Cases Endure as Lessons in Hysteria<\/em><\/a>\u201d by Mark Oppenheimer in The New York Times (Aug. 6)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201c \u2018We Believe the Children\u2019 should serve to remind us of the dangers of the \u2018we must believe the victim\u2019 mindset in the case of any criminal offense. A faith-based pursuit of justice can lead to a miscarriage of justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u2013 From\u00a0 \u201c<\/em>What Fueled the Child Sex Abuse Scandal That Never Was<\/em><\/a>?” by Lizzie Crocker at the Daily Beast (Aug. 3)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201c \u2018We Believe the Children\u2019 reveals the various combinations of ignorance, venality, arrogance and zealotry that characterized the major players who fueled the moral panic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0From \u201cA Very Model Moral Panic<\/a>\u201d by Carol Tavris in the Wall Street Journal\u00a0 (Aug. 7)<\/em><\/p>\n

Here also is a\u00a0radio interview<\/a>\u00a0with Beck and \u2013 inevitably \u2013 a response from\u00a0witch-hunt denier Ross Cheit<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aug. 10, 2015 Since I undertook this blog in 2011, I\u2019ve been waiting for a mass-market book that recalls the \u201csatanic ritual abuse\u201d day-care era with authority, insight and thoroughness. \u201cWe Believe the Children: A Moral Panic in the 1980s\u201d comes pretty darn close to meeting that standard. (I do wish author Richard Beck had […]<\/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-1481","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\/1481","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=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1817,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions\/1817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}