{"id":2787,"date":"2017-01-25T14:52:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T14:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2787"},"modified":"2017-01-25T14:52:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T14:52:09","slug":"when-the-people-we-trust-cant-be-trusted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2787","title":{"rendered":"When the people we trust can\u2019t be trusted"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2788\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2788\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2788\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/170125Wright.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/170125Wright.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/170125Wright-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2788\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lawrence Wright<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Jan. 25, 2017<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy is there such a cultural bias toward stories of abuse \u2013 and especially toward grotesque\u00a0and absurd tales, even when there is no reliable evidence that any crime occurred in the first place?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe very people we count on to protect our society \u2013 prosecutors, police, social workers, jurors, even\u00a0parents \u2013 are eliciting fantasies from children that express our worst collective fears. &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe libel that our society has imposed on child-care workers is a kind of projection of guilt for\u00a0the damage that we ourselves have done, as parents and as a society. We have given our children\u00a0to strangers to rear, and it makes us uneasy and fearful. Is it any wonder we have a bad conscience?&#8230;. \u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2013 From \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/1994\/10\/03\/child-care-demons\" target=\"_blank\">Child-care Demons<\/a>\u201d\u00a0by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/contributors\/lawrence-wright\" target=\"_blank\">Lawrence Wright<\/a>\u00a0in The New Yorker (Oct. 3, 1994)<\/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>Jan. 25, 2017 \u201cWhy is there such a cultural bias toward stories of abuse \u2013 and especially toward grotesque\u00a0and absurd tales, even when there is no reliable evidence that any crime occurred in the first place? \u201cThe very people we count on to protect our society \u2013 prosecutors, police, social workers, jurors, even\u00a0parents \u2013 are [&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-2787","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\/2787","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=2787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2790,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions\/2790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}