Quotes About Abusive Parents

#1. We can only speculate why, but physically abusive parents seem to share certain characteristics. First, they have an appalling lack of impulse control.

Susan Forward

#2. 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

#3. The child welfare system - devised and run by liberal social workers, psychologists, and judges ... Treats incompetent or abusive parents as its clients, and only secondarily considers the needs and well-being of the children involved.

Mona Charen

#4. The degree to which the psychiatric community is complicit with abusive parents in drugging non-compliant children is a war crime across the generations, and there will be a Nuremberg at some point in the future

Stefan Molyneux

#5. 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

#6. Grandiosity is when we are wrapped up in winning life's false contest. This happens only when we live to impress the abusive parents in our heads, not when we are soberly and philosophically working to advance civilization.

Steven Franssen

#7. I am done looking for love where it doesn't exist. I am done coughing up dust in attempts to drink from dry wells.

Maggie Young

#8. Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.

Jodie Foster

#9. my parents Oedipal fakers

Lidia Yuknavitch

#10. Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.

Desiderius Erasmus

#11. We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.

Allan Bloom

#12. You and I are so much alike, Isa; different, but alike. You threw yourself into your artwork to help cope with your abusive situation and to let your secret desires out, and I embraced it to forget about my parents' death.

Ella Dominguez

#13. Because the perpetrators typically have little understanding as to why they are sexually assaulting children, they usually are unable to stop after the first assault. Abusive behavior continues until a crisis of some kind prevents further abuse.

Tony Martens

#14. When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.

Baron De Montesquieu

#15. Let's start working towards wellness, a healing in our community, a healing in relationships, so male and female can finally sit down and understand that that young boy or young girl saw behavior exhibited by their parents that was negative and abusive and they're going to pass it on.

Pam Grier

#16. I'm a pirate," I remind him.
"Yes. I just can't figure out if you're a good pirate or a really good pirate.

Tricia Levenseller

#17. Some parents let their kids sleep at other people's houses, where they drink alcohol, watch TV for hours and God knows what else. But if you say you have to get all A's and practice the violin for two hours, then they consider that abusive. That upsets me.

Amy Chua

#18. What cannot be communicated to the [m]other cannot be communicated to the self.

John Bowlby

#19. Maternal absence, in one form or another, is always found in the background of the incest romance. Womens literature on incest generally treats the theme of maternal absence tragically. Mens literature trivializes it or treats it comically. And clinical literature tends to treat it judgmentally.

Judith Lewis Herman

#20. Slim and curving sickle of the moon

Cameron Dokey

#21. Spiders hate Athena, and Athena hates them right back. But spiders also hate humans, because Arachne never forgot her shame and her anger at being ridiculed.

Rick Riordan

#22. I want to say that nobody accuses their parents of abusing them without justification to do that. I didn't just make it up. A lot of things were true and abusive and horrible things that happened to me that my father did.

Roseanne Barr

#23. Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want.

Ali Vincent

#24. In the minds of my parents, they are the victims; I am the abuser.

Christina Enevoldsen

#25. The capacity for dissociation enables the young child to exercise their innate life-sustaining need for attachment in spite of the fact that principal attachment figures are also principal abusers.

Warwick Middleton

#26. But for a mother who was submissive to the degree my mother was, it was OK to kill girls. For a father like mine, it was normal to chop off his daughters hair with sheep shears, and to beat her with a belt or a cane or tie her up in the stable all night with the cows.

Souad

#27. After my father died when I was seven and my mother entered into an abusive relationship, I shuffled between houses - staying with friends, families from church, and relying on the kindness of teachers and people throughout my community to help me grow up essentially without parents.

Ronnie Musgrove

#28. She was his soulmate, as much a part of him as the very flesh and bone that made him. She was with him, in him, in everything he did. She was everything he wanted from his life, the very measure of his dreams.

Jennifer Donnelly

#29. A person cannot make another happy, but he can make him unhappy. This is the main reason why there is more unhappiness than happiness in the world.

Thomas Szasz