“The mind fabricates and believes in whatever it wants to conclude is true because of what occurs on the spur of the… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
I would certainly choose my jobs depending on the actions of the character. I won't do anything that has to do with… — Kathleen Turner Copy Share Image
I am tearing the feathers out of the pillows, waiting, waiting for Daddy to come home and stuff me so full of… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Child abuse is a heinous and personally damaging crime; it is therefore incumbent on the Church to treat such matters with the… — John Sentamu Copy Share Image
“If you treated your children the way God treats his children, you'd be in jail for child abuse.” — Eric Welch Copy Share Image
“As these abuse children grow, they oppose the lies (that they still trust and believe to be true) to the verity that… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“I believe we all heal differently, it is a process, and many like me are here to help you as you heal,… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“How much our society values its children can be measured by how well they are treated and protected.” — Howard Markel 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
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
“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
“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
Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children… — Matt Blunt Copy Share Image
“By developing a contaminated, stigmatized identity, the child victim takes the evil of the abuser into herself and thereby preserves her primary… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“...repeated trauma in childhood forms and deforms the personality. The child trapped in an abusive environment is faced with formidable tasks of… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“from: The Portrayal of Child Sexual Assault in Introductory Psychology Textbooks - Elizabeth J. Letourneau, Tonya C. Lewis One of the central… — Michelle Rae Hebl Copy Share Image
“Dissociation is the common response of children to repetitive, overwhelming trauma and holds the untenable knowledge out of awareness. The losses and… — Judith Spencer Copy Share Image
“Richard Gardner (2004), the creator of ‘‘parental alienation syndrome’’, considers that the ‘‘parental alienation syndrome (PAS) is primarily a disorder of childhood.… — Jenny Ann Ryberg 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
“Because the victims are “only children,” their distress is trivialized. But in twenty years’ time these children will be adult who will… — Alice MIller, The Drama of the gifted child Copy Share Image
“Forced motherhood results in bringing miserable children into the world, children whose parents cannot feed them, who become victims of public assistance… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Parents are a role model for their youngsters and how they act with these small ones or in front of them can… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“He recognized the same frenzy of wild abandon that each of those adults shared while beating their children, as if the important… — Elizabeth Garden Copy Share Image
My kids ordering sushi is not child abuse. It's not like they're eating scraps out of the bin. They're privileged to be… — Kerry Katona Copy Share Image
“Another reason it's dangerous to acknowledge that you were unloved is that it implies the possibility that your mother may have been… — Victoria Secunda Copy Share Image
“Think twice before you pull your trouser and rape a woman; she may be your mother, sister or friend, and you know… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent. — Carl Karcher Copy Share Image
“Abuse ambushed my life, I could not love myself truly and could never have a healthy relationship, they were either abused or… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“She listens at doors and around corners. She has always had this habit. A child in danger must learn to pay more… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
“childhood is not for sell, children are not content, stop using your children for like, share, and viral,” — Mohammed Zaki Ansari Copy Share Image
Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul. — Dave Pelzer Copy Share Image
“The abused children feel so useless within that they become more vulnerable to exploitation in the future too.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“Nancy was as proud as she was critical of her younger daughter. She spoke glowingly about the precocious little girl who said… — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
“Most children who survive into adulthood always have a lingering question that commonly arises as to why is there very little support… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems… — Robert Casey Copy Share Image
“Anyone who shames survivors of trauma and abuse for not healing, is a person who has no compassion for life's suffering” — Alice Little Copy Share Image
I'm a child who was abused. I know the difference. I clearly know the difference. The whipping for correction and then their… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image