Children Quote by Janet Heimlich

Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this…

— Mary Garden

Child abuse is a heinous and personally damaging crime; it is therefore incumbent on the Church to treat such matters with the utmost seriousness.

— John Sentamu

Parents who spoil their children out of 'love' should realize that they are performing acts of child abuse. Although there are no laws against…

— Randy Alcorn

“Qualitative and quantitative research with adults and children reporting ritual abuse has found that it occurs alongside other forms of organised abuse, particularly the…

— Michael Salter

“I am persuaded that the phrase 'child abuse' is no exaggeration when used to describe what teachers and priests are doing to children whom…

— Richard Dawkins

Regarding the accusations of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests, deplorable and disgusting as those abuses are, they are not so harmful to…

— Richard Dawkins

“Few people can present a completely secular argument detailing why abusing toddlers is objectively wrong. But that hardly stops them from recognizing this moral…

— Scott Klusendorf

“Childhood abuse is the misuse of power and control which leads to wrong.”

— Patricia Dsouza

“Jill had described this kind of religious upbringing as a form of mental abuse, and I returned to the point, as follows: ‘You use…

— Richard Dawkins

“Extremes on either side are dangerous and pernicious to parent and child. For remissness will make children careless of all duty to God and…

— William Gouge

Who will say with confidence that sexual abuse is more permanently damaging to children than threatening them with the eternal and unquenchable fires of…

— Richard Dawkins

“Child abuse isn’t evil because it may produce neurotic adults but because it abuses children.”

— Alison Gopnik