{"id":185,"date":"2011-11-25T21:48:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T21:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=185"},"modified":"2015-12-23T21:51:32","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T21:51:32","slug":"parents-gullibility-grounded-in-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"Parents&#8217; gullibility &#8216;grounded in anxiety&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style76\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><span class=\"style171\">Nov. 25, 2011<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"style170\">\u201cIn the prototypical witch hunts in Europe and in the Massachusetts colony, the accused were often scapegoats for some calamity \u2013 disease, bad harvests, the birth of a deformed child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style170\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-186 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/111125Talbot.jpg\" alt=\"111125Talbot\" width=\"80\" height=\"120\" \/>\u201cIn the witch hunts of the \u201980s, there was no such injury to be avenged or repaired. There was, however, a psychological need to be fulfilled. Our willingness to believe in ritual abuse was grounded in anxiety about putting children in day care at a time when mothers were entering the work force in unprecedented numbers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style170\">\u201cIt was as though there were some dark, self-defeating relief in trading niggling everyday doubts about our children&#8217;s care for our absolute worst fears \u2013 for a story with monsters, not just human beings who didn&#8217;t always treat our kids exactly as we would like; for a fate so horrific and bizarre that no parent, no matter how vigilant, could have ever prevented it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style172\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 Margaret Talbot, writing in The New York Times Magazine, Jan. 7, 2001<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov. 25, 2011 \u201cIn the prototypical witch hunts in Europe and in the Massachusetts colony, the accused were often scapegoats for some calamity \u2013 disease, bad harvests, the birth of a deformed child. \u201cIn the witch hunts of the \u201980s, there was no such injury to be avenged or repaired. There was, however, a psychological [&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-185","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\/185","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=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}