{"id":994,"date":"2016-06-09T16:56:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T22:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cruithni.wordpress.com\/?p=994"},"modified":"2016-06-09T16:56:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T22:56:55","slug":"how-concept-creep-made-americans-so-sensitive-to-harm-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=994","title":{"rendered":"How &#8216;Concept Creep&#8217; Made Americans So Sensitive to Harm &#8211; The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>During the 1950s, third graders could walk to school, play alone at the park, or bike 10 minutes to a friend\u2019s house without anyone worrying or objecting, so long as they came home for supper or before the street lights came on. Today, though kidnapping is just as rare, a parent who allows that same behavior is at risk of arrest or even losing custody of their children to their state\u2019s child protective services bureaucracy. Society\u2019s concept of what constituted an unacceptable risk, harm, or trauma expanded for ill. In Hanna Rosin\u2019s words, it \u201cstripped childhood of independence, risk taking, and discovery\u2014without making it safer.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A 17-page pdf available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/1047840X.2016.1082418\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2016\/04\/concept-creep\/477939\/\">How &#8216;Concept Creep&#8217; Made Americans So Sensitive to Harm &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the 1950s, third graders could walk to school, play alone at the park, or bike 10 minutes to a friend\u2019s house without anyone worrying or objecting, so long as they came home for supper or before the street lights came on. Today, though kidnapping is just as rare, a parent who allows that same &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=994\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How &#8216;Concept Creep&#8217; Made Americans So Sensitive to Harm &#8211; The Atlantic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,42,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-freedom","category-mental-illness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}