Abused Children Quotes

#1. I explain to my patients that abused children often find it hard to disentangle themselves from their dysfunctional families, whereas children grow away from good, loving parents with far less conflict. After all, isn't that the task of a good parent, to enable the child to leave home?

Irvin D. Yalom

#2. Many people, for many reasons, feel rootless - but orphans and abandoned or abused children have particular cause.

Christina Baker Kline

#3. Many neglected and abused children grow up to be adults who are afraid to take risks of striking out on their own. Many will remain dependent on their abusive parents and unable to separate from them. Others leave their abusive parents only to attach themselves to a partner who is controlling.

Beverly Engel

#4. Marginalised and abused children are often overlooked even today, and risk becoming marginalised and abused adults who may never receive acknowledgment or respect for the immense physical and emotional burden they carry from childhood or indeed have their full potential realised.

Jane Hersey

#5. The abused children are alone with their suffering, not only within the family, but also within themselves. They cannot crate a place in their own soul where they could cry their beart out.

Alice Miller

#6. I want to set up orphanages for underprivileged and abused children.

Lindsay Lohan

#7. When abused children under court protection were studied in California and Massachusetts, it turned out that a disproportionate number of them were unattractive ... abused kids had head and face proportions that made them look less infantile and cute.

Nancy Etcoff

#8. So often parents of abused children feel helpless. When a child falls, and scrapes her knees parents can erase the hurt by kissing it and putting a Band-Aid on it, but not so with the pain of sexual abuse.

Erin Merryn

#9. There are tons of kids out there who endure chronic abuse and suffer in silence. They can't trust anyone, they can't tell anyone, and they have no idea how to get away from it.

C. Kennedy

#10. I did criminal defense work part-time, and that paid the bills for representing abused and neglected children ... and for defending in juvenile court those kids the 'child protective system' had missed when it had the chance.

Andrew Vachss

#11. People say, "Oh, we ought to fight for animal rights." We fought for human rights, but even if humans have rights, they can still be horribly abused and are every day. You don't have to go to some far off land, far away place; we have a lot of child abuse in our own society.

Jane Goodall

#12. When you're little you believe whatever your mother tells you, so I assumed it must be true, that I must be inferior to the others in some way.

Joe Peters

#13. A child has a greater chance of being sexually abused than burned in a fire. Along with stop, drop, and roll we must teach them to yell, run, and tell.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#14. He will experience that prickle, that shiver of disgust that afflicts him in both his happiest and most wretched moments, the one that asks him who he thinks he is to inconvenience so many people, to think he has the right to keep going when even his own body tells him he should stop.

Hanya Yanagihara

#15. Empirically, all pornography is made under conditions of inequality based on sex, overwhelmingly by poor, desperate, homeless, pimped women who were sexually abused as children.

Catharine MacKinnon

#16. ...there is a particular focus of the problem faced only by men. It arises from our culture providing no room for a man as victim.

Mike Lew

#17. Abuse doesn't define you.

C. Kennedy

#18. Children are born atheists. Then they are indoctrinated and abused by so-called 'God's representatives.' Innocents are scarred emotionally and psychologically by those who are sworn to protect them.

C.J. Anderson

#19. ...Studies have found that children who witness abuse are more likely to accept relationships that are abusive.

Asa Don Brown

#20. A Federal research project selected 1,600 children who had been abused or neglected and followed them for nearly twenty years.

Gavin De Becker

#21. If you were sexually abused & could not go to your family for support, you deserve to realize that your family failed you fundamentally. Your parents did not provide a safe atmosphere of support & protection for their children, which is a parent's first responsibility. It was not your fault.

Patti Feuereisen

#22. Society has seldom considered the vicarious effects of domestic violence between partners on the lives of children.

Asa Don Brown

#23. Being bullied by a serial bully is equivalent to being stalked or being battered by a partner or being abused as a child and should be accorded the same gravity.

Tim Field

#24. I guess to their wide, innocent eyes it all seemed like normal family life because they had never known any different. In fact, I was the only one who had lived with anyone else, the only one that realized that life didn't have to be this terrifying and this painful all the time

Joe Peters

#25. Why are we so obsessed with celebrity culture? We have front-page news about divorces instead of front-page news about global warming, about women being abused, about children being abused. We're going on a downward spiral.

Heather Mills

#26. We're not at a point in time to be taking chances with children and young people in the church. The Holy Father himself said ... there is no room in the priesthood or religious life for someone who has abused a child. I think he's right.

Roger Mahony

#27. Abusive parents have inappropriate expectations of their children, with a reversal of dependence needs. Parents treat an abused child as if the child were older than the parents. A parent often turns to the child for reassurance, nurturing, comfort, and protection and expects a loving response.

Benjamin James Sadock

#28. Be aware of children who may be living in a domestically violent home.

Asa Don Brown

#29. More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

John A. Powell

#30. I have a lot of advantages: I'm not addicted to horrifying pills. I also have surrounded myself with far more caring and upright individuals. And I wasn't abused as a child, so I'm doing okay!

Rufus Wainwright

#31. I'm not saying that a child who was abused or beaten or abandoned made that happen, but your reaction to it is always yours.

Wayne Dyer

#32. children died that same week at the hands of a parent, just like every week - and most of them were under 5 years old. Four million luckier children were physically abused last year,

Gavin De Becker

#33. I deeply regret that those with the authority and responsibility to deal appropriately with Brendan Smyth failed to do so, with tragic and painful consequences for those children he so cruelly abused.

Sean Brady

#34. Abused And neglected children have paid the price for liberalism's tendency to sentimentalize the poor.

Mona Charen

#35. How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise.

Charles Caleb Colton

#36. Laws and mechanisms originally meant to enforce copyright, protect children and fight online crime are abused to silence or intimidate political critics.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#37. My church [Catholisism] is hurting from arrogance and from its indifference to the suffering of children that were abused and the inclination of the leadership to protect the institution, rather than the children.

Mark Shields

#38. Don't try to be brave all at once. Take it in steps.

C. Kennedy

#39. If the semicolon is one of the neglected children in the family of punctuation marks these days, told to stay in its room and entertain itself, because mummy and daddy are busy, the apostrophe is the abused victim.

John Humphrys

#40. Until we accept that our children have much more of a risk of being sexually abused than drowning in a pool, being struck by a car, stricken with cancer, hurt by a vaccination, or diagnosed with ebola, we contribute to a culture of panic and ignorance.

Ann Brasco

#41. He doesn't hurt us anymore."
Of course he doesn't hurt you anymore, I think. You're not defenseless anymore.

Melanie O'Shea

#42. For all those who believed me,
and for all those who didn't.
It can't be easy hearing
things that you shouldn't.

Icarus X.

#43. It is essential that children who are directly or indirectly affected by domestic violence receive psychological care.

Asa Don Brown

#44. Mum was determinate to crush my spirit and put a stop to my behavior once and for all and she beat me up so violently, so often, that I finally understood I must never question her or so much as look at her directly again.

Joe Peters

#45. I'm a child who was abused. I know the difference. I clearly know the difference. The whipping for correction and then their child abuse.

Tyler Perry