Abusive Quote by Gary Chapman

“Psychologically abusive families can never be without a targeted victim. Otherwise, they would have to look at their own individual issues and deal with…

— Shannon Thomas

I had lived with abuse for many years, but the worst abuse has been at my own hands and the appalling situations I have…

— Amanda de Cadenet

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

— Viggo Mortensen

“Many neglected and abused children grow up to be adults who are afraid to take risks of striking out on their own. Many will…

— Beverly Engel

Many offenders have had immensely difficult upbringings and do not have the support of loving families and friends.

— David Gauke

“Their experiences led them to create assumptions about others and related beliefs about themselves such as "this is my lot in life" and "this…

— Christine A. Courtois

I really hate to see abusive behavior being passed on from generation to generation to generation, when we have access to health and counseling.

— Pam Grier

“The experience of chronic abuse carries within it the gross mislabeling of things. Perpetrators are really "nice daddies." Victims are "evil and seductive" (at…

— Diane Langberg

The burden of abuse can sometimes be too much to bear, particularly for our families.

— Rachel Reeves

I can't have my family in my life because they are abusive, and I don't have control over that. There is an abusive culture…

— Tara Westover

A clamor for 'family values' requires deliberate blindness to the abuses that occur within families.

— Bob Allen

Maybe every family is dysfunctional, and that's the only thing in common throughout the world.

— Julie Delpy