The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“The little girl's dependency on her father made [his] abuse more insidious.” — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
“An Underground Railroad story with a distinctive flavor. –Booklist” — Sharon Lovejoy Copy Share Image
“Childhood abuse is the misuse of power and control which leads to wrong.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“Perhaps nothing so accurately characterizes dysfunctional families as denial.” — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
I went through child abuse, and I also went through abuse with dating a couple of boyfriends in high school. I also… — Cheryl Burke Copy Share Image
“Being survivors signifies that we have recognized that we have been through a lot that should never have taken place and we… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“There are parents who use their small children as weapons. They are weak people. Sick people. And their children are watching them,… — Brenda Sutton Rose Copy Share Image
“As I started my personal voyage to unpack the childhood that I repressed for so long, everything unexpectedly made sense as to… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“The more I focus my time and energy on withstanding a real life, I am able to overcome and come out victorious.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
When we commit violence against an infant girl, we call it child abuse; when we commit violence against an infant boy, we… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“If a child grows up in an environment infested with predators, he or she would have a hard time building healthy relationships… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“If a child is abused by a family member, most likely they blame themselves for the integral act of abuse than those… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
As a former police officer, I have long advocated that it is not only the job of the NYPD to make our… — Eric Adams Copy Share Image
I can remember as a young boy, early teenage years, going with my dad, who's a pediatrician, when my dad would testify… — Josh Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Abused children realize that they cannot rely on their emotions since their innocent love and trust are already crushed and betrayed. They… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“Many ritually abusive cults deliberately divide the personality system down the middle of the head, making sure that there is no communication… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
I keep wondering how to explain the experience of child abuse from the inside. I'm going to try to explain what my… — Robin Quivers Copy Share Image
Child abuse damages a person for life and that damage is in no way diminished by the ignorance of the perpetrator. It… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
We can develop a social vaccine (Self-esteem). We can outgrow our past failures - our lives of crime and violence, alcohol and… — John Vasconcellos Copy Share Image
“Incest, rape and abuse is rampant everywhere, even in our churches, but society is silent. It is a silent epidemic. One in… — Diane Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“Everybody sees the ants?" He looks at me and says, "Well, how many people do you think live perfect lives, son? Aren't… — A.S. King Copy Share Image
“Those who support such survivors of abuse often find it difficult to hear the reality of those survivors' lives and experience and… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“Allegations of multi-perpetrator and multi-victim sexual abuse emerged to public awareness in the early 1980s contemporaneously with the denials of the accused… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“I opened my louvres and looked at Comfort, walking in the heavy rain, crying bitterly. I heard mom saying, Anywhere you want… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“The people who were behind my abuse were very clever. They had created something which would be so difficult to explain, so… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“Dissociation, in a general sense, refers to a rigid separation of parts of experiences, including somatic experiences, consciousness, affects, perception, identity, and… — Elizabeth F. Howell Copy Share Image
“Often, to keep the family together, the woman will accept repeated beatings and rapes, emotional battering and verbal degredation; she will be… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“The second factor helping to bring the dissociative disorders back into the mainstream was the Vietnam War. For sociological reasons originating outside… — Colin A. Ross Copy Share Image
“If you are really doing all this for your kids, then why are you so mean to them?” — Dmitry Dyatlov Copy Share Image
“The war is against children, and all the other wars are just a shadow of the war on children.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering. — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“Abused children as they grow to believe that they are damaged beyond repair.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“You are not mad. You are recovering from trauma. Mad people abused you,” — Alice Little Copy Share Image
Any time your parent says they party with you, that is its own form of child abuse. — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
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