Abuse Quote by Patricia Dsouza

“When the manipulations of childhood are a little larceny, they may grow and change with the child into qualities useful and admired in the…

— Leontine R. Young

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

— Patricia Dsouza

“The most important thing in defining child sexual abuse is the experience of the child. It takes very little for a child’s world to…

— Laura Hough

“Abuse is not his goal, but control is, and he finds himself using abuse to gain the control he feels he has a right…

— Lundy Bancroft

“the abuser's desire to abuse is not created by the child - it is there before the child appears”

— Carolyn Ainscough

“Child sexual abuse teaches us lessons about power- who has it and who doesn't. These lessons, experienced on a bodily level, transfer into the…

— Joanna Kadi

“Davies and Frawley believe that while the child may be a passive victim of the original sexual abuse, the child’s subsequent active elaboration of…

— Stephen A. Mitchell

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

— Joan Frances Casey

The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect…

— James T. Walsh

“Manipulation can give you anything in life you want, if you can afford it.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Child Abuse is...the mean and terrible things you do to a child...knowing that you can never get away with doing the same to an…

— Timothy Pina

“A covert kind of sexual abuse occurs when Dad or Mom talk about sex in front of the children when the age level of…

— John Bradshaw