Denial Of Child Abuse Quotes

#1. Denial is commonly found among persons with dissociative disorders. My favorite quotation from such a client is, "We are not multiple, we made it all up." I have heard this from several different clients. When I hear it, I politely inquire, "And who is we?

Alison Miller

#2. What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women?

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#3. As recently as 1975, a basic American psychiatry textbook estimated that the frequency of all forms of incest as one case per million. [James Henderson, "Incest", in A. M. Freedman, H.I. Kaplan and B.J. Sadock, eds., Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 2nd ed. 1975 p. 1532.]

Judith Lewis Herman

#4. Physical changes take place continuously, while chemical changes take place discontinuously. Physics deals chiefly with continuous varying quantities, while chemistry deals chiefly with whole numbers.

Max Planck

#5. She bade us remember that it was cowardice to succumb to the greatest misfortunes, and that with time and courage there was no evil that could not be remedied.

Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot De Villeneuve

#6. Without realizing it, I fought to keep my two worlds separated. Without ever knowing why, I made sure, whenever possible that nothing passed between the compartmentalization I had created between the day child and the night child.
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Marilyn Van Derbur

#7. You, lass, have a self-image problem.
Well, that might be a little true, but she also had a mirror.

Cherise Sinclair

#8. Coming from a big family, I learned a lot. Things don't have to be perfect. You can do okay with 'almost.'

Hollis Stacy

#9. 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

#10. We need to stop allowing the unsupported testimony of children who are of an age where they can barely distinguish fantasy and reality.

Mary Pride

#11. Sit peacefully in a church and think of church history: witchburning perhaps, or child abuse, genocide, the amassing of disgusting wealth, the repression of women, inquisitions, castrating child choir singers, the denial of Santa Claus and the support of fascists in power.

Kaz Cooke

#12. I can't get myself to say what happened next. I cannot cope with even thinking about this let alone living with it."
"It is so degrading and I try to forget, it hurts so much because she is my mother."
- Graham talks about being sexually abused by his mother

Carolyn Ainscough

#13. Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.

Stefan Molyneux

#14. Your intuition knows what to do. The trick is getting your head to shut up so you can hear.

Louise Smith

#15. My mom called Grandma today and told her we would no longer be attending family parties. My mom told her we have had enough of being blamed for something Brian did and everyone brushing it off like it was no big deal.

Erin Merryn

#16. The major problem is that the public has been convinced that child abuse is a major problem.

Mary Pride

#17. On top of the abuse and neglect, denial heaps more hurt upon the child by requiring the child to alienate herself from reality and her own experience. In troubled families, abuse and neglect are permitted; it's the talking about them that is forbidden.

Marcia Sirota

#18. We're all suicides. The tragedy is every day that we don't die.

Thomm Quackenbush

#19. Never vote for a candidate whose campaign promises include 'doing more for children.

Mary Pride