Parent Abuse Quotes

#1. As long as fathers rule but do not nurture, as long as mothers nurture but do not rule, the conditions favoring the development of father-daughter incest will prevail.

Judith Lewis Herman

#2. After all I've done for you' has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.

Dorothy Rowe

#3. Marital psychological abuse suffered by a parent can never be understood by disrespectful, ungrateful, growing, biased, brainwashed children.

Angelica Hopes

#4. 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

#5. Sexual abuse of children now presents society with the ultimate crisis of patriarchy, when children refuse to protect their fathers by keeping secrets.

Beatrix Campbell

#6. Scorned and torn, former love mates aim and shoot childish devastating daggers that penetrate beyond target to pierce the heart of their offspring.

T.F. Hodge

#7. Even child abuse specialists do not routinely screen for domestic violence. This shows how much more education we need to do, even among experts, to understand the known links between violence of the child and the parent.

Jocelyn Brown

#8. Because the child does not have the power to withhold consent, she does not have the power to grant it.

Judith Lewis Herman

#9. If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse.

Richard Dawkins

#10. And as she held me, I suddenly realized that my lifelong search for love and acceptance had finally ended in the arms of a foster parent.

Dave Pelzer

#11. Liberal child welfare experts decided that child abuse was not evidence of a moral or character flaw in the abusing parent. Instead, like poverty, crime, and homelessness, child abuse came to be viewed as evidence of a societal failure.

Mona Charen

#12. Children would struggle desperately to feel love for their parents. Rather than hate a parent, in fact, they'd choose to hate themselves. Love and violence became so intertwined for them that when they grew up and got into relationships, only hysteria could set their hearts at ease.

Ryu Murakami

#13. 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

#14. If you do not have a close friendship with your children, I will.--Child Molester warning all parents from the book Type 1 Sociopath

P.A. Speers

#15. As a parent who raised his children in dysfunction, I know the parental wounds my children received were not intentional; often they were my best expression of love, sometimes coming out sideways, not as I intended.

David W. Earle

#16. Any time your parent says they party with you, that is its own form of child abuse.

Dennis Miller

#17. Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.

Nick Bostrom

#18. Every parent can imagine the joys of child abuse.

Mason Cooley

#19. I ... understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't.

Jodi Picoult

#20. THE most widespread form of child abuse in the United States is parents sending children to the government to be educated.

Neal Boortz

#21. Though all the daughters eventually succeeded in escaping from their families, they felt, even at this time of the interview (while in their 20s and 30s) that they would never be safe with their fathers, and that they would have to defend themselves as long as their fathers lived.

Judith Lewis Herman