{"id":3020,"date":"2017-12-10T11:24:51","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T11:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3020"},"modified":"2018-01-12T18:26:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T18:26:20","slug":"believe-the-children-after-theyve-been-interrogated-into-submission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3020","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Believe the children\u2019 (after they\u2019ve been interrogated into submission)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3021\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3021\" style=\"width: 80px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3021\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/171209Wright80.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"160\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3021\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wright<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Dec. 10, 2017<\/p>\n<p>\u201cControversy over the credibility of children\u2019s testimony has congealed into a debate between those who demand that we \u2018believe the children\u2019 no matter how outlandish their allegations and those who maintain that children are inherently so suggestible that their testimony can never be relied on upon. An interesting question that remains is why children are not believed when, as often happens, they specifically deny charges at the time they first arise&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy isn\u2019t the child allowed to say no? A widening body of research shows that repeated questioning of children, especially by authoritative adults with a specific bias, will often lead to answers that conform to the interviewers\u2019 expectations&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDivorce, neglect, unsafe neighborhoods, bad schools \u2013 these primary social problems are not the fault of the people to whom we have entrusted our children. Forcing children to invent stories of abuse <em>is<\/em> abuse&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/1994\/10\/03\/child-care-demons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Child-care Demons<\/a>\u201d by Lawrence Wright in The New Yorker (Oct. 3, 1994)<\/em><\/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>Dec. 10, 2017 \u201cControversy over the credibility of children\u2019s testimony has congealed into a debate between those who demand that we \u2018believe the children\u2019 no matter how outlandish their allegations and those who maintain that children are inherently so suggestible that their testimony can never be relied on upon. An interesting question that remains is [&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-3020","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\/3020","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=3020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3039,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions\/3039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}