{"id":1886,"date":"2016-02-03T22:56:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T22:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1886"},"modified":"2016-02-08T20:38:52","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T20:38:52","slug":"is-finkelhor-now-less-panicked-by-day-cares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1886","title":{"rendered":"Is Finkelhor now less panicked by day cares?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1887\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1887\" style=\"width: 181px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1887\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/160203Finkelor.jpg\" alt=\"David Finkelhor\" width=\"181\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/160203Finkelor.jpg 181w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/160203Finkelor-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 181px) 100vw, 181px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1887\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Finkelhor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Feb. 3, 2016<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA new survey finds that adults at school, day care and organizations such as churches and scouting groups are less likely than relatives to abuse or mistreat children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn general, organizations that serve young people \u2018do not look like particularly risky environments,\u2019 said study co-author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unh.edu\/ccrc\/researchers\/finkelhor-david.html\" target=\"_blank\">David Finkelhor<\/a>,\u00a0director of the University of New Hampshire&#8217;s Crimes Against Children Research Center. This contradicts perceptions by some people who \u2018think these are magnets for molesters,\u2019 he said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwitimes.com\/niche\/get-healthy\/child-abuse-at-daycare-youth-groups-rarer-than-thought-survey\/article_1ee8b58f-1bdb-509b-be4a-b7d7101a11cf.html\" target=\"_blank\">Child Abuse at Daycare, Youth Groups Rarer Than Thought: Survey<\/a>\u201d\u00a0by Randy Dotinga in the Northwest Indiana Times (Feb. 2)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Surprising to see Dr. Finkelhor dismiss the notion of day cares as \u201cmagnets for molesters,\u201d given that his own overwrought \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Nursery-Crimes-Sexual-Abuse-Care\/dp\/0803934009\/ref=sr_1_11?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1454534479&amp;sr=1-11&amp;keywords=nursery+crimes\" target=\"_blank\">Nursery Crimes: Sexual Abuse in Day Care<\/a>\u201d\u00a0(1988) was an influential text in spreading the moral panic.<\/p>\n<p>How did he determine back then whether sexual abuse had actually occurred? \u201cIf at least one of the local investigating agencies had decided that abuse had occurred and that it had happened while the child was at a day-care facility&#8230;.then we considered the case substantiated.\u201d In other words, one supposed \u201cred flag\u201d sighting from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1017\">Brenda Toppin<\/a>\u00a0was certification enough.<\/p>\n<p>As recently as 2012, when I queried Dr. Finkelhor about his beliefs past and present,\u00a0 he denied being \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=476\">an authority on the validity of claims<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0that he had laid out with such credulity in \u201cNursery Crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1707\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/LRDCC20.jpg\" alt=\"LRDCC20\" width=\"132\" height=\"20\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 3, 2016 \u201cA new survey finds that adults at school, day care and organizations such as churches and scouting groups are less likely than relatives to abuse or mistreat children. \u201cIn general, organizations that serve young people \u2018do not look like particularly risky environments,\u2019 said study co-author David Finkelhor,\u00a0director of the University of New [&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-1886","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\/1886","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=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1949,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions\/1949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}