Abusive father Quote by John Bradshaw

“The happy family is a myth for many.”

— Carolyn Spring

“I wanted my mother to love me. Despite all the torture and brutality.”

— Wendy Hoffman

“Nancy was as proud as she was critical of her younger daughter. She spoke glowingly about the precocious little girl who said her first…

— Joan Frances Casey

“In some instances, even when crisis intervention has been intensive and appropriate, the mother and daughter are already so deeply estranged at the time…

— Judith Lewis Herman

“More than one personality was created in the hope of being the daughter Nancy could consistently love. More than one new personality was created…

— Joan Frances Casey

“Jo tried to think about her suspicion that Lynn liked her. She figured that Lynn was nice to her because she was a patient.…

— Joan Frances Casey

“We are all born same, we are completely cute, innocent, sweet, and we need that reflection of ourselves as little human beings to live,…

— Anneke Lucas

“Joan Frances says her mother is perfect someone she models herself after. She is tortured because she is disobeying her mother by seeing me.…

— Lynn I. Wilson

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

— Joan Frances Casey

When I talk about unrequited love, most of you probably think about romantic love, but there are many other kinds of love that are…

— Rosamund Lupton

All human beings are inherently good, so when someone goes off the rails, there must be some mitigating factor - he was bullied, was…

— Ray Comfort

I grew up with an extremely abusive father. As a mother, I wanted to protect my own children from exposure to violence. When I…

— Ginny Brown-Waite