Cases Quote by Mercedes Ruehl

I was exposed to violence while I was still in the womb - my father punched my mother in the stomach while she was…

— Jim Goad

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

— Margaret Atwood

I'm not saying that a child who was abused or beaten or abandoned made that happen, but your reaction to it is always yours.

— Wayne Dyer

Children consider disliking their parents natural, but if the dislike is returned, they are outraged.

— Mason Cooley

“The cruelty of children is more shocking than the cruelty of adults. Not only was I shocked, I was angry. But it felt somehow…

— Charlaine Harris

I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when…

— Elvis Presley

Here was a period where I was particularly attacked, and in untrue ways, some people online said some things that were not true about…

— David Plotz

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

— Ariel Gore

I learned how my childhood had led me to be comfortable with confrontation and insensitive to those with less power. I came across as…

— Gagan Biyani

“There’s a general sense now that children’s rights, children’s needs, children’s wants and desires have taken on too prominent a place in our family…

— Judith Warner

We have all had to deal with cruel remarks from other children, and it has made us stronger as a result. But today every…

— Claire Fox

I never knew how passive-aggressive people could be until I became a parent. Or even aggressive-aggressive. It actually began before I had a child.…

— Laura Lippman