Discussing frightening issues reassures children that they are not alone.

Evidence

In fact, her focus on it helped me decide to limit my study to that neck of the bay, even though it meant ignoring a month’s worth of my ¢eldwork notes from another area. … Certainly, investigation on the level of the individual psyche is important, but not my project. And the two levels of investigation are not mutually exclusive: one could extend the idea of psychic numbing, for example, to discuss interaction. … The researchers found that talk itself, almost regardless of the content, helped reassure children, by letting them know that they were not alone in their fears. — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”, 180

Categorization

• QUESTION: The claim that talk itself, regardless of content, reassures children, opens a question about whether this generalizes beyond nuclear-taboo families to other suppressed topics.
• corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”: The work of avoiding…, 180