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Chapter 4 62 trusts Y, it must also be so that ‘X expects Y, at a later point of time, to fulfil certain standards or criteria’ (ibid); and that ‘trust implies a certain degree of uncertainty’. 50 Trust in powers or capacities can be said of things and people, whereas trust in inclinations or good will can only be in human beings and is based on a moral judgment. For Bollnow, however, ‘real’ trust is only applicable to human beings, because human beings are in principle unpredictable/incalculable, because of their free will. 51 Interpersonal trust can be roughly defined as ‘accepted vulnerability to another’s possible but not expected ill will (or lack of good will) toward one’ or to another’s possible but not expected lack of competence. 52 Baier’s account of trust allows for ‘unconscious trust, for conscious but unchosen trust, as well as for conscious trust the truster has chosen to endorse and cultivate’. 53 Hieronymi argues that if one decides to trust, one rather entrusts someone with something, which is not the same as what she calls full-fledged trust, which must be based on a trusting belief, i.e. a belief in the trustworthiness of the one that is trusted. And a belief is not something one can choose to have. 54 MacLeod makes a further distinction between Hieronymi’s full-fledged trust and therapeutic trust. 55 Full-fledged trust requires a trusting belief and people therefore cannot decide to trust someone, just because it is ‘useful’ for some reason. Therapeutic trust (or ‘useful trust’), on the other hand, does work like that. It depends on (external) reasoning, i.e. one decides to trust as the result of reasoning. But this kind of trust is really a matter of ‘entrusting’. Hieronymi gives the example of a ‘trust circle’ (a trust-building exercise in which you have to let yourself fall backwards, trusting that the group will catch you). When you are in doubt about whether you trust the others to catch you (there is no trusting belief), perhaps because you don’t know them too well, you can decide that it is good to entrust the others with catching you, because you have good reasons to do so (e.g. it is beneficial to the group-building/trust-building/etc.). 56 Trust in the parent-child relationship First, although we can say of someone that she is a trustworthy person, often trust is about me trusting you , or – in this paper – about the parent trusting the child, and vice versa. The question we seek to answer here is how trust (and what type of trust) is important for the parent-child relationship. That being said, the parent-child relationship is a relationship between un-equals, in 50 Ibid., p. 159. 51 Bollnow 1958, pp. 177-178. 52 Baier 1986; Spiecker 1990. 53 Baier 1986, p. 244. 54 Hieronymi 2008. 55 MacLeod 2015. 56 Hieronymi 2008.