Why Do We Judge Parents for Putting Kids at Perceived But Unreal Risk?

Re:Why Do We Judge Parents for Putting Kids at Perceived But... by compiler-guy on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @04:29PM (#12347290)

The article explicitly states that mothers (who have children) judge other mothers more harshly than everyone else. In fact, the ranking of most likely to overestimate risk to least likely is:

1. Mothers 2. Childless women 3. Fathers 4. Childless men

In other words, the ones who know the most about child rearing (in our culture, that is mothers), are the worst at assessing risk.

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Re:Why Do We Judge Parents for Putting Kids at Perceived But... by dragonwriter on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @06:15PM (#12348223)

> In other words, the ones who know the most about child rearing (in our culture, that is mothers), are the worst at assessing risk.

Leaving aside the dubious connection to knowledge about child rearing, including the suggestion that childless women have more knowledge than fathers on that point, "most prone to overestimate risks in low-risk situations" is not the same as "worst at assessing risk".

I suspect if a ranking was produced of those most likely to underestimate risk in high-risk situations, you'd get exactly the reverse ordering.

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Re:Why Do We Judge Parents for Putting Kids at Perceived But... by MandieD on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @07:09AM (#12351120)

Actually, it was:

1) Mothers 2) Fathers 3) Childless women 4) Childless men

(Childless woman here, defending our honor)

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Re:Why Do We Judge Parents for Putting Kids at Perceived But... by compiler-guy on Thursday August 25, 2016 @12:52PM (#12360520)

Thanks for the correction. Too late to edit my post.

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