We Believe the Children : A Moral Panic in the 1980s (Hardcover)

from BrandieC

We Believe the Children is about the spate of daycare child abuse cases which hit the news in the 1980s and, as its subtitle reveals, Richard Beck is not impressed at the way those cases were handled: by the police, by the mental health professionals, by the prosecutors, by the judges, by the new...

from BrandieC

We Believe the Children is about the spate of daycare child abuse cases which hit the news in the 1980s and, as its subtitle reveals, Richard Beck is not impressed at the way those cases were handled: by the police, by the mental health professionals, by the prosecutors, by the judges, by the new...

from jlbattis

The further infantilizing of American society. If you lived through these years, as I did, this will add context and depth to this depressing era of our recent history. If not, you may just be horrified as the most vacuous accusations become reality as seen through the lens of Hard Copy.

from DavidWineberg

Throughout the 80s and 90s I clipped articles on the various fantastic sex and satan arrests and trials that suddenly became the norm. It filled a folder to the point where I had to split it into cases. We Believe The Children is a summary of those cases, the background and tangents to them, and ...

from pomo58

We Believe the Children by Richard beck is an account of the hysteria that arose in the 1980s around allegations of daycare child abuse and associated satanism. Those of us old enough to remember this will find some of the details familiar, though they are presented well. It seems the issue with ...