Child abuse Quote by Richard Dawkins

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

— Richard Dawkins

The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing…

— Joyce Cary

“If you treated your children the way God treats his children, you'd be in jail for child abuse.”

— Eric Welch

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

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

“Some people do not want to examine religious influences of child maltreatment. However, if we fail to look at all influences and risk factors,…

— Janet Heimlich

“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

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

— Alison Gopnik

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

“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

“As these abuse children grow, they oppose the lies (that they still trust and believe to be true) to the verity that they pick…

— Patricia Dsouza

Children: a torment and nothing more.

— Leo Tolstoy