Leaving a child at home alone isn't always unsafe – it's just socially unacceptable, study claims
Leaving a child at home alone isn't always unsafe – it's just socially unacceptable, study claims
- August 25, 2016
- Social scientists Ashley Thomas (cog sci), Barbara Sarnecka (cog sci) and Kyle Stanford (LPS) give insight in Daily Mail, Aug. 25, 2016
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Barbara Sarnecka, cognitive scientist at UCI and senior author of the study, said: 'At a minimum, these findings should caution those who make and enforce the law to distinguish evidence-based and rational assessments of risk to children from intuitive moral judgements about parents – and to avoid investing the latter with the force of law.'
For the full story, please visit http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3758206/How-bad-leave-child-home-Scientists-say-ve-exaggerated-risks-moral-judgements-parents.html.
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