Children Quote by Susan Forward

“It is behavior, not words, that has the greatest impact on a child. When a mother tells her daughter not to allow a man…

— 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

“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

“A huge majority of parents use some form of physical or verbal aggression against children. Since women remain the primary caretakers of children, the…

— bell hooks

“If you don't like men who physically abuse women, stop telling your son it's okay to hit a little girl if she's bothering him.”

— Karen E. Quinones Miller

“It is important to note that research has shown that men who have abusive mothers do not tend to develop especially negative attitudes toward…

— Lundy Bancroft

“The experience of chronic abuse carries within it the gross mislabeling of things. Perpetrators are really "nice daddies." Victims are "evil and seductive" (at…

— Diane Langberg

“People on the outside of situations like these often wonder why the woman go back to the abuser. I read once that 85 percent…

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Angelica Hopes

“When I first began working in this area, I was startled to learn that while people who were physically abused by their fathers or…

— Susan Forward

Child abuse is still sanctioned — indeed, held in high regard — in our society as long as it is defined as child-rearing. It…

— Alice Miller

Much is made of the accelerating brutality of young people's crimes, but rarely does our concern for dangerous children translateinto concern for children in…

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin