Child abuse Quotes · Page 2

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.

— David Frost

I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse.

— Joycelyn Elders

I've really focused a lot on child welfare and dealing with child abuse issues.

— Josh Shapiro

Any abuse of animals is the same as abuse of men, women, or children.

— Alison Goldfrapp

“I'm still not sure if I was a victim or not... and if I was, who was my abuser?”

— Eskay Teel

“When the gates of mockery and abuse is opened, the heart becomes a shock absorber”

— Ikechukwu Izuakor

The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.

— Anais Nin

The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.

— Alice Miller

“Josh joined her at the window. She let him look. He should know that the world was not all lessons and iguanas…

— George Saunders

“I can just conceive of the pit of despair, the notion of being powerless and the essence of existence through it entirely”

— Patricia Dsouza

“the abuser's desire to abuse is not created by the child - it is there before the child appears”

— Carolyn Ainscough

Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked.

— Anna Quindlen

Is discipline (both mental and physical) in place of coddling truly child abuse? I don't know, but it sure as hell is…

— Steven Crowder

“In some counties, there is an actual named crime of ritual abuse and there too, there have been convictions.”

— Laurie Matthew

“It is my personal opinion that all survivors can go from victim to victor and live more than a survivor.”

— Patricia Dsouza

“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

“It wasn’t some mysterious adverse personality trait that comprises of who I am, it unquestionably had a source - A cradle of…

— Patricia Dsouza

“While my sister and I were reminded we did not cause this pain, it was knowing that because we broke our silence…

— Erin Merryn

“In the same way that the women's movement of the seventies and eighties brought rape and incest into public consciousness, we can…

— Carolyn Spring

“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

Sit peacefully in a church and think of church history: witchburning perhaps, or child abuse, genocide, the amassing of disgusting wealth, the…

— Kaz Cooke

Fifty three per cent children in India face sexual abuse - both boys and girls - but we still feel uncomfortable talking…

— Rahul Bose

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

“All people cross the line from childhood to adulthood with a secondhand opinion of who they are. Without any questioning, we take…

— Heyward Ewart

“This monograph by Special Agent Ken Lanning (1992) is merely a guide for those who may investigate this phenomenon, as the title…

— Pamela Sue Perskin

“The childhood sexual abuse taught me that my value came from sex. In adulthood, I was driven to have sex since I…

— Christina Enevoldsen

I did a film about child abuse with the great producer-director Richard Donner, Radio Flyer. Again, I was replacing somebody, but Lorraine…

— John Heard

“Many professionals have to sign gagging clauses or face the sack if they speak out. The social worker and therapist was familiar…

— Beatrix Campbell

“Blaming therapy, social work and other caring professions for the confabulation of testimony of 'satanic ritual abuse' legitimated a programme of political…

— Michael Salter

“Moments later, Hawfield walked in. He wasn't alone. “You've got to be kidding!” Hi blurted. Carmine Corcoran's scowl was as deep as…

— Kathy Reichs

“There were other strange signals and signs. Another day, suddenly felt an almost overwhelming urge to travel to Balitmore. I wanted to…

— Cheryl Hersha

“Being in a state of denial is a universally human response to situations which threaten to overwhelm. People who were abused as…

— Sarah E. Olson

“The little girl's dependency on her father made [his] abuse more insidious.”

— Joan Frances Casey

“Many of us have been disconnected with our own individualities, our true individualities.”

— Patricia Dsouza

“THOSE WHO SAID IT CAN'T BE DONE...SHOULDN'T GET IN MY WAY WHILE I'M DOING IT!”

— Rosetta D. Hoessli

The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.

— Nelson Mandela

To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse.

— Neal Barnard

“The initial trauma of a young child may go underground but it will return to haunt us.”

— James Garbarino

“I was worthy of healing my scars and so are you.”

— Patricia Dsouza

“We are creatures built on a house of cards of language.”

— Stefan Molyneux