Behavior Quote by Susan Forward

“While every parental behavior sends out a message of some kind, it is only the repetitive themes that form the child's picture of the…

— Susan Forward

Sexual activity, for women, has a history of vulnerability, in a way it simply does not have for men. The mother has to teach…

— Terri E Apter

“As a parent you are never, ever dealing just with the words and actions of your children. You are always also dealing with the…

— Paul David Tripp

“When a child is subjected to verbal attacks, she sees it not as something being done to her but as something she has caused…

— Susan Forward

The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.

— Herbert Spencer

“A child is like a relationship. You can only shape it as it's growing, or it becomes a menace if let to grow without…

— Andew-Knox B Kaniki

“Manipulation is majorly at play in sexual abuse. The kid is in full control, influenced, used completely for one’s advantage, to work to the…

— Patricia Dsouza

“Your child acts this way because she doesn’t know how else to handle her difficult thoughts and feelings.”

— Jeffrey Bernstein

“Family-centered parents do not have the emotional freedom, the power, to raise their children with their ultimate welfare truly in mind. If they derive…

— Stephen R. Covey

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

— Joan Frances Casey

“Marital psychological abuse suffered by a parent can never be understood by disrespectful, ungrateful, growing, biased, brainwashed children.”

— Angelica Hopes

Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.

— Bob Keeshan