Benches Quote by Mary Blakely

... the growing child must not be treated by those rigid rules of criminal procedure which confessedly fail to prevent offenses on the part…

— Julia Lathrop

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

— Honore de Balzac

“Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty.”

— Friedrich Engels

Only the guilty are guilty. Their children are not.

— Elie Wiesel

“For every group, malevolence is always somewhere else. Maybe we understand at this point in history that it can occur at night in darkened…

— Anna Salter

The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.

— Jean Racine

Who gives anybody a right to judge a mother? Nobody knows the kind of issues that a woman is going through.

— Rupali Ganguly

Sometimes a mother has to do what is right for her!

— Vesta Rhoades

It's just not right to make an innocent child suffer because of the father's misdeeds.

— Emily Yoffe

“Probably every child who has suffered abuse must assume an attitude like this in order to survive. These children reinterpret their perceptions in a…

— Alice Miller

The mother may be doing ninety percent of the disciplining, but the father still must have a full-time acceptance of all the children. He…

— Bill Cosby

We need to challenge this assumption that any child who's alone, who isn't being directly supervised and observed, is a child in in peril.

— Kim Brooks