Abusive father Quote by Susan Forward

“By reversing roles with her son, a mother communicates to him that he is supposed to comfort, protect, and take care of her. She…

— Susan Forward

“Perhaps the loaded question is: How often is maternal self-sacrifice really only masochistic martyrdom, destructive to the mother and destructive to the child as…

— Natalie Shainess

“A woman who submits to her husband's abusive treatment is living out the role of victim and behaving more like a helpless child than…

— Susan Forward

“Children expect different things from each parent. Traditionally, the mother is expected to protect and defend the children, while the father is seen as…

— Susan Forward

“Few things feel as threatening to a mother as does something that jeopardizes others' love for and acceptance of her child.”

— Amy Fenton Lee

“Consider him indulgently: the Egoist is the Son of Himself. He is likewise the Father. And the son loves the father, the father the…

— George Meredith

“If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress.”

— Milan Kundera

“- A mother, a real mother with a little child, thinks day and night about the welfare of the little one in her arms.…

— Johann Christoph Blumhardt

“Women in troubled marriages frequently try to work out their problems through their children. Whether a woman does this through the extremes of overwhelming…

— Susan Forward

“When one knows that he is his mother's child, and proceeds to guard (the qualities of) the mother that belong to him, to the…

— Laozi

“In addition to withholding love and attention and thereby frustrating her son, a cold, rejecting mother will often punish him for his normal needs…

— Susan Forward

Vengeful as nature herself, she loves her children only in order to devour them better and if she herself rips her own veils of…

— Angela Carter