Abuse Quote by Warren Farrell

Circumcision is where sex and violence meet for the first time.

— Jeannine Parvati Baker

How strange that excision – female circumcision, with several languages using the same term for both kinds of mutilation – of little girls should…

— Michel Onfray

“Our revulsion towards cutting the genitals of girls should give us pause, however, for the themes the Western world abhors – removing part of…

— David L. Gollaher

When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. When an adult hits…

— Anonymous

Female genital mutilation targets little girls, baby girls - fragile angels who are helpless, who cannot fight back. It's a crime against a child,…

— Waris Dirie

“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

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

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

“Sometimes I hesitate to use the term sexual abuse. It conjures up worst-case scenarios in our minds, and we think, "That will never happen…

— Carolyn Byers Ruch

“Within the circuits of heteromasculinity in the United States, violence and sex are mutually constituted, a fact most evident among adolescent boys, who hardly…

— Jane Ward

Even before the kids are born, you've go to make these decisions. If it's a boy, do we get him circumcised? If it's a…

— Greg Giraldo

There is no other even moderately equal abuse than the murder of little baby girls - nothing else compares with that, in horror.

— Jimmy Carter