--- title: "5 Children Fought Quotes by 4 authors" description: "Browse 5 Children Fought quotes by 4 authors. Discover the best Children Fought sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/905/ruth-downie-22186_bad-parenting-skills_but-how-can-an-ordinary-girl-not-know-th_1500790.jpg" --- > [“But how can an ordinary girl not know this? Had Varana's mother not bothered to teach her anything at all or just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-downie/but-how-can-an-ordinary-girl-not-know-this-had-varana-s-mother-not/) [Ruth Downie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-downie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/905/ruth-downie-22186_bad-parenting-skills_but-how-can-an-ordinary-girl-not-know-th_1500790.jpg) > [“...Cleveland was the first war over the protection of children to be fought not in the courts, but in the media... Given…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-richardson/cleveland-was-the-first-war-over-the-protection-of-children-to-be/) [Sue Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-richardson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/09b/sue-richardson-86668_abuse_cleveland-was-the-first-war-over-the-pro_1784537.jpg) > [“A boy trudged down the sidewalk dragging a fishing pole behind him. A man stood waiting with his hands on his hips.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harper-lee/a-boy-trudged-down-the-sidewalk-dragging-a-fishing-pole-behind-him-a/) [Harper Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harper-lee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf5/harper-lee-451_around-the-corner_a-boy-trudged-down-the-sidewalk-dragging_1966224.png) > [Once upon a time there was a woman who was just like all women. And she married a man who was just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-smart/once-upon-a-time-there-was-a-woman-who-was-just-like-all-women-and/) [Elizabeth Smart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-smart/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e7e/elizabeth-smart-6994_bicycle_once-upon-a-time-there-was-a-woman-who-w_2610397.png) > [“It is often said that Vietnam was the first television war. By the same token, Cleveland was the first war over the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-richardson/it-is-often-said-that-vietnam-was-the-first-television-war-by-the/) [Sue Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-richardson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a1/sue-richardson-86668_abuse_it-is-often-said-that-vietnam-was-the-fi_3188479.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children-fought/#itemlist", "name": "Children Fought Quotes", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“But how can an ordinary girl not know this? 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A second judge — hearing an application to have their children returned by parents about whom social services had grave worries told the assembled lawyers that, as she lived in the area, she could not help but be influenced by what she read in the press. Hardly surprising then that child protection workers soon found courts not hearing their applications, cutting them short, or loosely supervising informal deals which allowed children to be sent back to parents, even in cases where there was explicit evidence of apparent abuse to be explained and dealt with. (p21) [reflex anal dilatation (RAD): a simple clue which is suggestive of anal penetration from outside. It had been recognised as a valuable weapon in the armoury of doctors examining children for many decades and was endorsed by both the British Medical Association and the Association of Police Surgeons. 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