
Recovery can take place only within then context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation. —
Judith Lewis Herman

How do you circumvent a mind bent upon lying to get away from the truth? —
Noorilhuda

The abuser's desire to abuse is not created by the child - it is there before the child appears —
Carolyn Ainscough

The initial trauma of a young child may go underground but it will return to haunt us. —
James Garbarino

If you can get to be you, why can't I get to be me? —
Noorilhuda

The wounded recognized the wounded. —
Nora Roberts

Even in death, her mother was winning. —
Noorilhuda

The vast majority of incest begins years before the earliest conceivable age of consent. p4 —
Judith Lewis Herman

I ... understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't. —
Jodi Picoult

I have avoided the fate my father planed for me, surely it is I who won not he. —
Robin LaFevers

The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive. —
Anais Nin

Not to take one's own suffering seriously, to make light of it or even to laugh at it, is considered good manners in our culture. —
Alice Miller

I remember the pain I felt, and wonder why a man who was such an accomplished liar had to tell the truth that day. —
Toni Maguire

What distresses me at times is that I meet a lot of people in their 40's, 50's, 60's, who still say they're a victim of
child abuse. —
Dave Pelzer

If you want to know the real reasons behind that attitude, think of the thought behind that attitude —
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

It is always a mistake to underestimate how long it takes for mankind to understand the traumas it has suffered, especially the self-inflicted ones. —
A.C. Grayling

Tender Ember
... Barred and branded
to be forever unloved
I was a tender ember
seeking solace from above ... —
Muse

Youngsters deserve no opinions. —
Carla H. Krueger

To give a child animal products is a form of
child abuse. —
Neal Barnard

I would certainly choose my jobs depending on the actions of the character. I won't do anything that has to do with
child abuse or women's abuse. —
Kathleen Turner

A child's attachment process begins within the first year of life ... —
Asa Don Brown

Who said 'please' that made you hate the word so much?"
Andrew gazed at him in silence for a minute. "I did. —
Nora Sakavic

A human being born into a cold, indifferent world will regard his situation as the only possible one. —
Alice Miller

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world? —
Christopher Hitchens

Believe in Eternity, believe in childhood, believe that the beauty of innocence lives on and on and on. I know it does. —
Yann W. Tanoe

I am filled with truth at my center where I once held shame. —
Maureen Brady

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. —
Aldous Huxley

How much our society values its children can be measured by how well they are treated and protected. —
Howard Markel

Whilst
child abuse may be committed behind closed doors, it should never be swept under the carpet. —
Constance Briscoe

No decent man would ever strike a woman or a child. —
Ellen J. Barrier

I sometimes continue to see myself in split ways; it causes me trouble and contributes to a lack of satisfaction with myself. —
Maureen Brady

I'm a child who was abused. I know the difference. I clearly know the difference. The whipping for correction and then their
child abuse. —
Tyler Perry

We need more
child abuse laws, these kids have been abusing us parents long enough. —
Lawrence Foort

A man or a woman can't be defined by the pain inflicted in them by others or by someone else's issues, but by their own character and actions. —
Linda Alfiori

No matter what tight corner I was in, I was capable of getting myself out of it ... not God! —
Stephen Richards

It's all interrelated, these destructive things I do. I latch on to people, like I'm collecting them. I'm always looking for a hero, you know? —
Jenna Brooks

THE most widespread form of
child abuse in the United States is parents sending children to the government to be educated. —
Neal Boortz

I always thought of myself as being the unluckiest girl I knew. I was, I believed, a 'jinx' and I was 'jinxed', or so I thought! —
Stephen Richards

Faith is why I'm here today and faith is why I made it through. —
Jonathan Anthony Burkett

It's important to talk about it. You raise awareness. But you can also prevent it (
child abuse) by not letting it be a secret. —
Chris Witty

He was six years old this time, and ancient. —
Red Tash

And as she held me, I suddenly realized that my lifelong search for love and acceptance had finally ended in the arms of a foster parent. —
Dave Pelzer

Christian is staring at us. He's an only child and could never understand the delicate joys of sibling abuse. —
Cynthia Hand

There are generally three parties to
child abuse: the abused, the abuser and the bystander. —
Louise Penny

Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for
child abuse and murder. —
Nick Bostrom

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul. —
Dave Pelzer

Women need total life support services for the mother as she and the family move through the crisis following disclosure. —
Janis Tyler Johnson

One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty. —
Stefan Molyneux

If you are really doing all this for your kids, then why are you so mean to them? —
Dmitry Dyatlov

When fear rules, obedience is the only survival choice. —
Toni Morrison

It is dangerous to use our own ability to access non-traumatic memories as a standard against which we judge a trauma victim's response. —
David Yeung

Every parent can imagine the joys of
child abuse. —
Mason Cooley

I regard taking healthy sea level adapted children to the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea as a form of
child abuse. —
Steven Magee

Parental Alienation is an emotional act of violence that is aimed at an adult, but critically wounds a child. —
Steve Maraboli

If you think a caregiver has an active substance abuse problem, that person should never be entrusted with your child. —
Emily Yoffe

Parental child abduction is
child abuse. —
Chris Smith

Just as much as the media portray child sexual exploitation as being a 'hidden' crime, then that is no less of a case with child physical abuse. —
Stephen Richards

If you do not have a close friendship with your children, I will.--Child Molester warning all parents from the book Type 1 Sociopath —
P.A. Speers

Ethan didn't mind his blood being taken - he just disliked the fact that it had to be sucked through a needle in order to do it. —
Belinda G. Buchanan

...there is a particular focus of the problem faced only by men. It arises from our culture providing no room for a man as victim. —
Mike Lew

Not even Carol knows firsthand how it feels to be hurt in such a way by someone who's supposed to protect you —
Ellen Hopkins

After all I've done for you' has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty. —
Dorothy Rowe

Always find the funny. —
Amy Susan Crohn

THOSE WHO SAID IT CAN'T BE DONE ... SHOULDN'T GET IN MY WAY WHILE I'M DOING IT! —
Rosetta D. Hoessli