She called again but got no response. Come this way. Americans lie on their income tax returns to the tune of millions of dollars a year. Doctors fake reports in order to profit from Medicare patients. Prize athletes at great universities are kept eligible for competition through bogus credits and forged transcripts of academic records.
Children soon acquire the cynical assumption that lying is the normal tack for TV advertisers.
After a while, people tend to expect not to hear the truth anymore. Since creation there has been an evil nature about us that seeks to distort the truth. We see this nature in our children. There is a new thought among researchers that children can and will tell deliberate lies by age 4, or perhaps even earlier. However, until age 8 most children cannot distinguish between a deliberate false statement and an unintentional one, but do know that it is wrong to try to mislead someone.