Those two sweet, brave children. I wish the interviewer took them more seriously.
There is no way little kids could dream that up.
Those two sweet, brave children. I wish the interviewer took them more seriously.
There is no way little kids could dream that up.
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I think (hope?) that person was trying to talk to them about the traumatic events in their lives in a manner that lightened it for them to talk about it, recover self-esteem, see that the future will be different etc. Or the guy is a EPIC jerk.
actually you are wrong. An interviewer can "induce" false memory into children. Don't you remember the "Satan" craze of the 1980s and especially the McMartin preschool case? Those "memories" were induced into the kids who were trying to please the interviewer.
That is why, when I had to examine young girls for sexual abuse, I had to be very discrete and not try to interview them about what had happened, since if I suggested something had happened, there was the danger that in a later interview the child would "remember" what I had suggested as a real event.
It is also a danger to adoptive parents of older children, where the child accuses the "new" parent of abuse that actually happened in an earlier situation.
I don’t know. There was something hinky about that. Can’t put my finger on it....