Child Abuse Quotes

I knew that I was the least-loved child because I was a girl and because my mother had died giving birth to me. — Adeline Yen Mah

Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal. — A.C. Grayling

Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are. — Stefan Molyneux

Incest is almost always a devastating experience for
the victim. — Susan Forward

There is comfort in knowing that you don't have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to heal. — Ellen Bass

Work hard. Suit yourself, then you'll know at least one person is pleased. — Carole Estrup

When the gates of mockery and abuse is opened, the heart becomes a shock absorber — Ikechukwu Izuakor

When we commit violence against an infant girl, we call it child abuse; when we commit violence against an infant boy, we call it circumcision. — Warren Farrell

Attachments that are not fostered may lend to the child's inability to properly attach or have no attachment at all. — Asa Don Brown

Think twice before you pull your trouser and rape a woman; she may be your mother, sister or friend, and you know the consequences that follows. — Michael Bassey Johnson

I had forgotten the fact that I had been raped, something no one would understand, how could anyone forget something as traumatic as being raped? — Stephen Richards

I was becoming a product of society, a hardened juvenile! Now I was becoming rebellious and hateful. — Stephen Richards

Mind Your Language in the Presence of Patriachs

Q. When is rape not rape?
A. When it is your father or stepfather. — S. Caroline Taylor

Don't put your child at risk. Limit unsupervised one-on-one time between your child & another adult or another child. — Carolyn Byers Ruch

He wrote to his father every day. His platoon called his dad a girlfriend. — Noorilhuda

The war is against children, and all the other wars are just a shadow of the war on children. — Stefan Molyneux

I love like a beaten child and I trust like an addict. — Kris Kidd

You might think the Bangkok Hilton (the nickname of a fictional prison in Bangkok) was tough, well that was paradise compared to this place! — Stephen Richards

The major problem is that the public has been convinced that child abuse is a major problem. — Mary Pride

And let's stop calling them "sex offenders," as if their crimes had anything to do with sex. (Perhaps Jeffry Dahmer was a "food offender.") — Mike Lew

We also want to make sure Penn State becomes a national leader in this whole area of child abuse prevention and treatment. — Rodney Erickson

Mistreating your drum set is just one step below child abuse — John Bonham

The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health. — Stefan Molyneux

Eyes so young, so full of pain ... Two lonely drops of winter rain ... And no tear could these eyes sustain ... For too much had they seen. — Shaun Hick

If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse. — Richard Dawkins

Though no longer living in silence, I continued to carry pain and memories. — Erin Merryn

Don't forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want. — Randy Alcorn

The major abscess in the mind is a lack of acknowledgement of evil. — Stefan Molyneux

I am here for readers to see parts of themselves during my dark days, but also for a better way of living in my triumphs and gained wisdom. — Theia Mey

Woe to the man who offends a small child! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We raise predators by treating children as prey. — Stefan Molyneux

Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering. — Stefan Molyneux

Sometimes the guys who look the most normal are the biggest pervs of all. — Teddy Wayne

A son is a poor substitute for a mother. — Joseph Stefano

If you want to breed something, breed bravehearts, not soulless racehorses. — Abhijit Naskar

We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick. — Stefan Molyneux

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