Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.
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DAVE PELZER Parental child abduction is child abuse.
CHRIS SMITH The major problem is that the public has been convinced that child abuse is a major problem.
MARY PRIDE Child abuse does not go away, but 90 percent of child abuse is preventable,
KAREN ADAMS To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse.
NEAL BARNARD Child abuse continues to be a significant problem in the United States. It was estimated that in 200...
PETE DOMENICI the abuser's desire to abuse is not created by the child - it is there before the child appears
CAROLYN AINSCOUGH With regards pedophilia I have always looked on it as that … pedophilia. I thought that one religi...
STEPHEN RICHARDS Religion to me was only something to be used and abused, as it had done nothing for me other than gi...
STEPHEN RICHARDS All these do-gooders make it sound like you just have to repent and off you go to heaven, but what a...
STEPHEN RICHARDS A lot of attention has been given over to the Catholic Churches sexual abuse of children in their ca...
STEPHEN RICHARDS Just as much as the media portray child sexual exploitation as being a 'hidden' crime, then that is ...
STEPHEN RICHARDS From spending ten years in hell and coming to this regime of kindness was a shock. It was so much of...
STEPHEN RICHARDS From a young boy’s viewpoint this could not get any worse, especially when you were told that you ...
STEPHEN RICHARDS I dived out of the office and I was gone … hitting these fields like a mad March hare. This wasn�...
STEPHEN RICHARDS I was becoming a product of society, a hardened juvenile! Now I was becoming rebellious and hateful.
STEPHEN RICHARDS No matter what tight corner I was in, I was capable of getting myself out of it … not God!
STEPHEN RICHARDS I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values w...
ALANIS MORISSETTE We are opening it up to the community at large because child abuse has no ZIP code.
FLORA JACKSON We decided we were really going to look at the survivor side of child abuse. (Cindy Hall) was a surv...
CHERYL LOVE Of all the horrid ramifications of child abuse, the self-beliefs formed by the child reap the greate...
HEYWARD BRUCE EWART III It would not be (illegal) under child pornography laws because no actual child was used in the act. ...
JACK BALKIN I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child a...
WILL ROGERS The inherently dangerous felony in this case is abuse of a child.
CHARLES BRANSON That is one way to go about preventing child abuse.
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GILLIAN BUTLER If you ask me do I trust I say yes, just not like before
ALICE LITTLE Child abuse is a problem no one really talks about. Abuse and neglect is the number 1 cause of injur...
DONNA MILLER Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.
HERBERT WARD Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything a...
PATCH ADAMS The experience of childhood sexual abuse leaves some survivors with a high tolerance for pain. Dysfu...
ROSENNA BAKARI The rape of a child is a violent act of contempt, not an expression of sexuality or affection.
MIKE LEW Never vote for a candidate whose campaign promises include ‘doing more for children.
MARY PRIDE I don't want to be charged with child abuse.
, SAYING HE DID NOT WANT TO GET INTO A WAR OF WORDS WITH VICE PRESIDENT DAN QUAYLE The more we idealized the past, however, and refuse to acknowledge or childhood sufferings, the more...
ALICE MILLER Anyone who shames survivors of trauma and abuse for not healing, is a person who has no compassion f...
ALICE LITTLE The entrance into the family of an outside professional with legal authority is always a crisis-ridd...
JANIS TYLER JOHNSON I'm looking into child abuse, not the cause of death.
BILL MOORE The Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect
CAROLYN BENNETT Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.
LAURA BUSH The Department has learned that the archdiocese maintains a list of files and letters regarding past...
BRYAN SAMUELS You Treat Me Like A Child
Because I Act Like A Child
But I Feel Like A Child
Because You Treat Me Li...
JAMES IKONOMOU Not only do I believe children can be reliable in sexual abuse cases, I believe the vast majority of...
STEPHEN J. CECI Incest is almost always a devastating experience for the victim.
SUSAN FORWARD When ever a man sees his child, he is excited not because of the child,but because he sees himself i...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Why isn't there a commandment to "honor thy children" or at least one to "not abuse thy children"? T...
BEVERLY ENGEL The wounded recognized the wounded.
NORA ROBERTS As a child, recognizing my difference from other kids, I went to the local public library to try to ...
JAMES MCGREEVEY Emotional abuse is the sustained, reptitive, inappropriate, emotional responses to the child's felt ...
KIERAN O'HAGAN Like Jocelyn, Survivors often think: * That’s just the way I am
* I’m not lovable, that’...
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BEN STEIN This abuse against this child needs to end and that means the abuse by the state of New Mexico in pr...
GARY MITCHELL The evidence of child abuse in this case was strong and conclusive.
JUSTICE MARLA LUCKERT In my opinion, one incident of abuse is justification for removing a child, and then they can try to...
LEWIS PITTS Maternal absence, in one form or another, is always found in the background of the incest romance. W...
JUDITH LEWIS HERMAN As recently as 1975, a basic American psychiatry textbook estimated that the frequency of all forms ...
JUDITH LEWIS HERMAN Who said 'please' that made you hate the word so much?"
Andrew gazed at him in silence for a mi...
NORA SAKAVIC When there is abuse by itself it's scary enough. When there is abuse within a religious setting it i...
VALERIE SINASON Child abuse is a heinous and personally damaging crime; it is therefore incumbent on the Church to t...
JOHN SENTAMU Any child death that is possibly the result of abuse or neglect is referred to DYFS for a separate i...
ANDY WILLIAMS I couldn’t imagine leaving a child. Not because it was unthinkable, but because I couldn’t imagi...
V.T. DAVY In this life it is good to have the experience of raising a child from infant stage to adulthood,be ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft. thanks to Alan Bennett -H. L. Mencken.
H. L. MENCKEN It is not surprising that we need to do more. I mean, this is child abuse. There is always more to b...
ANDREA INGRAM It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER It never really ends...
Children surviving through the cold winds of neglect, and all kinds of ...
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, b...
VALERIE BERTINELLI We are all born same, we are completely cute, innocent, sweet, and we need that reflection of oursel...
ANNEKE LUCAS I found reading Alan Bennett striking because you have this sudden flash of recognition when you rea...
MICHAEL GOVE Without realizing it, I fought to keep my two worlds separated. Without ever knowing why, I made sur...
MARILYN VAN DERBUR Fighting in front of your children is child abuse. You may not know how much it affects them but if ...
MYLYN YAMPAN Imagine the message that sent to my sister and me. A cousin violates us, confesses, and walks away w...
ERIN MERRYN The ruling classes use broken and smashed up childhoods as weaponised instruments of domination arou...
STEFAN MOLYNEUX There is an intergenerational reoccurrence rate of 30% in incest.
G. PIROOZ SHOLEVAR Perhaps nothing so accurately characterizes dysfunctional families as denial.
JOHN BRADSHAW The Courage to Heal Workbook: For Men and Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
LAURA DAVIS Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse...
MARY GARDEN I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to ...
JOHN BARROWMAN One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the lov...
JESSYE NORMAN For many people, the shock of sexual abuse pales before the shock of this mother’s statement, “I...
JUDITH LEWIS HERMAN In some instances, even when crisis intervention has been intensive and appropriate, the mother and ...
JUDITH LEWIS HERMAN She still remembered sitting for hours as a little girl and pretending to be a hassock. A foot stool...
ELOISA JAMES Sometimes the guys who look the most normal are the biggest pervs of all.
TEDDY WAYNE Once you have hit a child, you have scarred them for life.
JILLIAN JOYCE AARSVOLD A statue stands in a shaded place
An angel girl with an upturned face
A name is written on...
MARTINA MCBRIDE I ...understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a ...
JODI PICOULT Dads. Do you not realize that a child is what you tell them they are? That people almost always beco...
DAN PEARCE A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.
KATHERINE WHITEHORN A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.
KATHARINE WHITEHORN Embrace, nurture, love and celebrate the child in self and others; because being child is being a fu...
VISHWAS CHAVAN Because children take everything personally, they believe that if they are being mistreated, it's be...
MARCIA SIROTA We have laws about human rights in place for a reason and even if those laws are so often not enforc...
DARLENE OUIMET The child who attends school does not remember the abuse that happens at home or via the family; th...
ALISON MILLER I honestly don't think a child-development teacher could tell they were substance-exposed.
KEITH SCOTT Christian is staring at us. He’s an only child and could never understand the delicate joys of sib...
CYNTHIA HAND A child is convinced that he is loved, NOT because he KNOWS it; it is because he FEELS it
JOHN B. BEJO Preliminary research-most of it published outside the medical literature-indicates that a significan...
DAVID SCHNEIDER I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.
PAT MORITA The major abscess in the mind is a lack of acknowledgement of evil.
STEFAN MOLYNEUX Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are.
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ARNOLD BENNETT Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
ARNOLD BENNETT Avoiding the phrase
BO BENNETT A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.
BO BENNETT There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blam...
ARNOLD BENNETT While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happines...
BO BENNETT To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for exper...
ARNOLD BENNETT It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
ARNOLD BENNETT The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.
JESSE BENNETT Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ing...
ARNOLD BENNETT Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of avera...
ARNOLD BENNETT Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.
BO BENNETT Oh! St. Patrick was a gentleman,
Who came of decent people;
He built a church in Dublin town,...
HENRY BENNETT