{"id":407,"date":"2012-02-29T21:56:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T21:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=407"},"modified":"2015-12-29T21:58:58","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T21:58:58","slug":"believe-the-children-unless-they-deny-being-abused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=407","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Believe the children!&#8217; (unless they deny being abused)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-408\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/120104Pendergrast-1.jpg\" alt=\"120104Pendergrast\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/>Feb. 29, 2012<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cThe battle cry of those leading the charge in these cases is \u2018Believe the children!\u2019 In fact, the trouble always begins when adults do not believe children who truthfully report that no one abused them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cThe mantra would be more accurate if it went, \u2018Believe the children, but only when or if they say they were abused, no matter how incredible, bizarre or unrealistic their stories may be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201cVictims of Memory: Sex Abuse Accusations and Shattered Lives\u201d by Mark Pendergrast (1996)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 29, 2012 \u201cThe battle cry of those leading the charge in these cases is \u2018Believe the children!\u2019 In fact, the trouble always begins when adults do not believe children who truthfully report that no one abused them. \u201cThe mantra would be more accurate if it went, \u2018Believe the children, but only when or if [&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-407","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\/407","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=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}