Research Study: Santa Claus story is detrimental to child development BERKELEY, Ca—The story of jolly Santa with his “Ho-Ho-Hoâ€, Elf workers, North Pole toy factory, and admonition that “you’d better be goodâ€, is no longer an innocent children’s tale. Instead, it is a sinister story of sexual innuendo, labor exploitation and a blatant ignorance of global warming, so says a team of sociologists at the University of California at Berkeley. The Berkeley team recently submitted it’s findings in a report at the National Children’s Sociology Symposium after two years of painstaking research evaluating hundreds of Santa and Winter Holiday related...
