Sadomasochiasm - which we know very well doesn't exist in societies that don't have child abuse - is regarded some sort of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“With no other choice, I'd submitted to the will of our prophet and had married my nineteen-year-old first cousin.” — Elissa Wall Copy Share Image
“When they begin to feel that others don’t love them, they already consider their worth and consider that they are not worth… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“The abuser wants the victim to be confounded. They do not require the victim to see undoubtedly nor see things for what… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“when these little ones don’t receive the love, they need in their homes, they seek attention outside.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“After all, life is a voyage, and you cannot start out this voyage all over once more. You need to be in… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“A person raised in a healthy family is equipped to live a confident and independent life; someone from an unhealthy family is… — Christina Enevoldsen Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t some mysterious adverse personality trait that comprises of who I am, it unquestionably had a source - A cradle of… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“He didn't mean I couldn't leave, he meant I couldn't leave leave. If he meant I couldn't even take out the trash… — Dinah Katt Copy Share Image
Sit peacefully in a church and think of church history: witchburning perhaps, or child abuse, genocide, the amassing of disgusting wealth, the… — Kaz Cooke Copy Share Image
Fifty three per cent children in India face sexual abuse - both boys and girls - but we still feel uncomfortable talking… — Rahul Bose Copy Share Image
“Neglect transpires when the accountable adult fails to provide sufficiently for the needs of a child. It may be deliberate and conscious… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“The introduction to horrors so young impressed on me just how helpless and vulnerable I was. Parents are supposed to empower their… — Christina Enevoldsen Copy Share Image
Ok so I just had the best night. I went over my boyfriends house for dinner and when I got home I… — Fading_scars Copy Share Image
“Mum was pregnant, then there was Sharron. [...] I wanted to keep him away from her - but for the wrong reasons.… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“This vacillation between assertion and denial in discussions about organised abuse can be understood as functional, in that it serves to contain… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“In a nutshell, the process they [abusers in a ritual abuse group] use on survivors is designed to: break the will and… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“Janna knew - Rikki knew — and I knew, too — that becoming Dr Cameron West wouldn't make me feel a damn… — Cameron West Copy Share Image
“Violators cannot live with the truth: survivors cannot live without it. There are those who still, once again, are poised to invalidate… — Chrystine Oksana Copy Share Image
“And I suppose the saddest thing for me, thinking about Oranges , is that I wrote a story I could live with.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“But nothing in my previous work had prepared me for the experience of reinvestigating Cleveland. It is worth — given the passage… — Sue Richardson Copy Share Image
“[Refers to 121 children taken into care in Cleveland due to suspected abuse (1987) and later returned to their parents] Sue Richardson,… — Heather Bacon Copy Share Image
As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
“All people cross the line from childhood to adulthood with a secondhand opinion of who they are. Without any questioning, we take… — Heyward Ewart Copy Share Image
Boy lovers and the lesbians who have young lovers... are not child molesters. The child abusers are priests, teachers, therapists, cops and… — Patrick Califia Copy Share Image
Parents who spoil their children out of 'love' should realize that they are performing acts of child abuse. Although there are no… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
You need to identify the values that come out of that kind of belief system, because I don't see them. All the… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“The worst part ever is discoursing about the abuse to anyone you trust in the family or friends and when they prefer… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
Child abuse continues to be a significant problem in the United Sates. It was estimated that 2001,903,000 children were the victims of… — Pete Domenici Copy Share Image
People say, "Oh, we ought to fight for animal rights." We fought for human rights, but even if humans have rights, they… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Liberal child welfare experts decided that child abuse was not evidence of a moral or character flaw in the abusing parent. Instead,… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
“Mostly you love them and you cherish their milestones but occasionally you do want to tape them to a chair. That would… — E. A. Davis Copy Share Image
“It is, after all, far too easy to pinch and kick the bizarre Mormon Church; to say it's ripe for satire and… — Mark Morford Copy Share Image
“Ricky just listens. He isn't shocked. He isn't surprised. He listens to me because he knows. He knows the shame and the… — Emily Andrews Copy Share Image
Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies… — Mary Garden Copy Share Image
“Can’t a lawyer take his client out to dinner to discuss the case? Haven’t you ever heard of the two-martini lunch?” “Yes,… — Mark M. Bello Copy Share Image
Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
“My goal in going public was not to put my extended family to shame, or to get back at Brian for abusing… — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
![“Mum was pregnant, then there was Sharron. [...] I wanted to keep him away from her - but for the wrong reasons. In my head he was mine, he was my special person but, of course, as I was getting older, his interest in me was waning anyway. I don't know whether it was because he had lost interest in…” quote by Laurie Matthew](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ca2/laurie-matthew-31209_abused_mum-was-pregnant-then-there-was-sharron_3212563.jpg)
![“In a nutshell, the process they [abusers in a ritual abuse group] use on survivors is designed to: break the will and personality of the person until they become as nothing... with no will of their own...no identity...then they... rebuild the person & shape their will in order to...try and make…” quote by Laurie Matthew](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f99/laurie-matthew-31209_abuse-sexual-abuse_in-a-nutshell-the-process-they-abusers-i_1534823.jpg)
![“[Refers to 121 children taken into care in Cleveland due to suspected abuse (1987) and later returned to their parents] Sue Richardson, the child abuse consultant at the heart of the crisis, watched as cases began to unravel: “All the focus started to fall on the medical findings; other supportive…” quote by Heather Bacon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/54c/heather-bacon-241873_abuse_refers-to-121-children-taken-into-care-i_2551343.jpg)
