{"id":2843,"date":"2017-04-28T14:31:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T14:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2843"},"modified":"2017-04-28T14:31:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T14:31:44","slug":"satanic-ritual-abuse-abuse-believers-the-problem-wasnt-their-iq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2843","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Satanic ritual abuse\u2019 abuse believers: The problem wasn\u2019t their IQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2844\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2844\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2844\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/170428Chaon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/170428Chaon.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/170428Chaon-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2844\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Chaon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">April 28, 2017<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is this idea that people of the 1980s were just<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1003\"> not very bright or really superstitious<\/a>\u00a0or something like that. Back then, the people who questioned it were treated with suspicion. People would say, \u2018Of course this is happening, what\u2019s wrong with you?\u2019 And it\u2019s not like this is an anomaly in American history. In the \u201950s, Commies were crawling out of the basement. This stuff goes back to Salem witch trials&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ritual abuse thing also became part of psychological culture. This idea that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipt-forensics.com\/journal\/volume1\/j1_1_1.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">children don\u2019t lie about these things<\/a>\u00a0became really entrenched for a while&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a way to talk about actual abuse, I think. At the time, the idea that childhood abuse was mostly perpetrated by family members was too outrageous, too awful. People would rather believe that it was evil, Satan-worshipping strangers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 Dan Chaon, author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=vlNcDAAAQBAJ&amp;dq=illl+will+chaon&amp;source=gbs_navlinks_s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ill Will<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0quoted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mystatesman.com\/entertainment\/books--literature\/ill-will-dan-chaon-explores-abuse-murder-and-memory\/2DMdP29sEo3X1c9ZWVuEzK\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Gross<\/a>\u00a0in the Austin American-Statesman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Early on, Chaon\u2019s interest in writing a novel centered on \u201csatanic ritual abuse\u201d was piqued by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=342\">West Memphis Three<\/a>.<\/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>April 28, 2017 \u201cThere is this idea that people of the 1980s were just not very bright or really superstitious\u00a0or something like that. Back then, the people who questioned it were treated with suspicion. People would say, \u2018Of course this is happening, what\u2019s wrong with you?\u2019 And it\u2019s not like this is an anomaly in [&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-2843","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\/2843","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=2843"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2847,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843\/revisions\/2847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}