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
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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