“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
“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
I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect,… — Kenny Guinn Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, I experienced some sexual abuse. It was a known and admitted fact of life amongst us that there was this particular… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
We call for the end of bigotry as we know it. The end of racism as we know it. The end of… — Urvashi Vaid Copy Share Image
I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives. I think… — Camille Paglia 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
“Two other highly vocal FMSF Advisory Board members are Dr Elizabeth Loftus and Professor Richard Ofshe. Loftus is a respected academic psychologist… — Valerie Sinason Copy Share Image
“I am disgusted that I was often taken into their bed and told to do things to both of them. The things… — Carolyn Ainscough Copy Share Image
“Have you ever felt as if your dreams were more memorable, more alive, than what you knew to be reality? Have your… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Chronic trauma (according to the meaning I propose) that occurs early in life has profound effects on personality development and can lead… — Elizabeth F. Howell Copy Share Image
“The programme into which Cheryl was inducted combined all the different ways the intelligence community had learned could cause intense psychological change… — Cheryl Hersha 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
There was no such thing as child abuse. Parents owned their children. They could do whatever they wanted. — Ellen Burstyn Copy Share Image
“The most treasured gift you can present yourself today is a hand of assistance to liberate you from the prison of anxiety,… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“A particularly difficult line to navigate is the one between fear and love, especially for parents, who want more than anything to… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Cruelty towards animals and child abuse make me feel vulnerable. I wish there was more I could do. I try to spread… — Matt Sorum Copy Share Image
“You're a survivor because everyday you make a choice not to be governed by their harsh words or actions. No one has… — Assunta Harris Copy Share Image
“Manipulation is majorly at play in sexual abuse. The kid is in full control, influenced, used completely for one’s advantage, to work… — 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
“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
“when these little ones don’t receive the love, they need in their homes, they seek attention outside.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
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
“They illustrate that since no one really loves or cares for them, why should they love or care for themselves?” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family… — Lynn Johnston Copy Share Image
Growing up in bars might sound like child abuse. And if it does, then you're what my mom would call 'Protestants.' — Rory O'Malley Copy Share Image