{"id":585,"date":"2012-08-01T01:52:42","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T01:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=585"},"modified":"2015-12-31T01:55:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T01:55:04","slug":"mondale-act-set-up-bonanza-for-therapists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=585","title":{"rendered":"Mondale Act set up bonanza for therapists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-181\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/111105Lawrence-1.jpg\" alt=\"111105Lawrence\" width=\"133\" height=\"200\" \/>Aug. 1, 2012<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cCongress\u2019s well-intentioned but misguided Mondale Act (the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, CAPTA), signed into law by Richard Nixon in 1974, provided impetus to prosecute alleged crimes against children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cFirst, it provided immunity to reporters of abuse, thereby unleashing an unlimited supply of unsubstantiated charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cSecond, it provided funds to permit so-called victims to receive state-financed therapy immediately, even prior to any adjudication.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cThus, the victims in Edenton received extensive counseling, at government expense, for \u2018abuse\u2019 that never occurred. Four \u2018sex therapists\u2019 got all that business and received many thousands of dollars in reimbursement. They had no motivation to suppose those charges might be bogus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2013\u00a0<em>From &#8220;Sexual Liberation: The Scandal of Christendom&#8221; by Raymond J. Lawrence (2007)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aug. 1, 2012 \u201cCongress\u2019s well-intentioned but misguided Mondale Act (the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, CAPTA), signed into law by Richard Nixon in 1974, provided impetus to prosecute alleged crimes against children. \u201cFirst, it provided immunity to reporters of abuse, thereby unleashing an unlimited supply of unsubstantiated charges. \u201cSecond, it provided funds to permit [&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-585","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\/585","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=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}