Are children's false memories more persistent than their true memories?

Three experiments with three- and five-year-old children affirmed the notion that children's false memory responses are less likely to be forgotten than true-memory responses. This is according to the fuzzy-trace theory, which states that false memories persist across intervals compared with true memories. This is attributed to the unstable verbatim traces which support initial true-memory responses and the stable gist of events which support false-memory responses.