{"id":26256,"date":"2011-05-19T16:15:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T16:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_study_changes_of_1960s_behind_churchs_abuse_crisis\/"},"modified":"2011-05-19T16:15:16","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T16:15:16","slug":"npr_study_changes_of_1960s_behind_churchs_abuse_crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26256","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) Study: Changes Of 1960s Behind Church&#39;s Abuse Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;what does explain the rise in abuse? A major reason, she says, was the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a sexual revolution, there&#8217;s an increased amount of drug use, there&#8217;s an increase in crime, there&#8217;s an increase in things like premarital sex, in divorce,&#8221; [Karen] Terry says. &#8220;In a number of factors, there&#8217;s change. And the men who are in the priesthood are affected by these social factors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Terence McKiernan calls that the Woodstock defense.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of us went through the &#8217;60s, and very few of us reacted to the pressures of that interesting decade by sexually abusing children,&#8221; McKiernan says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/05\/18\/136436728\/catholic-bishops-release-sex-abuse-report\">Read or listen to it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;what does explain the rise in abuse? A major reason, she says, was the 1960s. &#8220;There&#8217;s a sexual revolution, there&#8217;s an increased amount of drug use, there&#8217;s an increase in crime, there&#8217;s an increase in things like premarital sex, in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26256\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,42,101,168,133,435,154,184,177,129,108,364,112,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-sexuality","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}