Abandoned Quote by Wayne Dyer

A lot of people who end up being horrible criminals when they are adults had very abusive childhoods. You can have sympathy for that…

— Mary L. Trump

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

I do not approve of children being beaten. It is always a confession of failure.

— Patricia Wentworth

But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example…

— Mercedes Ruehl

At some point, parents may become inured to a child's self-destruction, but I never did.

— David Sheff

I was an abused kid.

— Rosie O'Donnell

I saw my friends being beaten because they said no to child marriage.

— Sonita Alizadeh

There was no such thing as child abuse. Parents owned their children. They could do whatever they wanted.

— Ellen Burstyn

Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.

— Wayne Newton

The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.

— Kate Thompson

It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they…

— Mary Garden

No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to…

— Jeannette Walls