Quotes About Child Abuse And Neglect

#1. As the ACE study has shown, child abuse and neglect is the single most preventable cause of mental illness, the single most common cause of drug and alcohol abuse, and a significant contributor to leading causes of death such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, stroke, and suicide.

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#2. As a child abuse and neglect therapist I do battle daily with Christians enamored of the Old Testament phrase "Spare the rod and spoil the child." No matter how far I stretch my imagination, it does not stretch far enough to include the image of a cool dude like Jesus taking a rod to a kid.

Chris Crutcher

#3. Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.

Matt Blunt

#4. If we could somehow end child abuse and neglect, the eight hundred pages of DSM (and the need for the easier explanations such as DSM-IV Made Easy: The Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis) would be shrunk to a pamphlet in two generations.

John Briere

#5. The ladder of success is there waiting for you ... you just have to realize it and reach towards and climb as high as you can you will surely be successful.

Noor Ahmad

#6. All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection.

Alice Miller

#7. If your heart is open it can never stay broken.

Jane Seymour

#8. Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#9. 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

#10. Attachments that are not fostered may lend to the child's inability to properly attach or have no attachment at all.

Asa Don Brown

#11. For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise; Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow.

Edmund Spenser

#12. Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right for life. Let us be outraged, let us be loud, let us be bold.

Brad Pitt

#13. The two had very little figured out. They were trying though. They fell in love. They looked for God. They loved constructing miracles out of the mundane. Above all things, they cheered for each other. And they made each other stronger. And that meant everything.

Hannah Brencher

#14. The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.

Alice Miller

#15. A child's temperament appears to play another significant role in the child's own perceptions and worldview.

Asa Don Brown

#16. Maybe we all want to burn off across the horizon, into space, perhaps, to take off into some unknown territory and meet ourselves out there.

Berlie Doherty

#17. Traumatic experiences in early childhood may interfere with the child's ability to securely attach.

Asa Don Brown

#18. i needed someone who wasn't hell-bent on fixing me. someone without an agenda. someone who saw beauty marks instead of flaws. someone who wouldn't leave me when my past caught up with me. someone who would love me. unconditionally.

Adrian Michael

#19. Child abuse continues to be a significant problem in the United Sates. It was estimated that 2001,903,000 children were the victims of child abuse or neglect. Child abuse is a crime perpetrated on the innocent and the defenseless.

Pete Domenici

#20. The whole world goes on and on about love. Poets spend their lives writing about it. Everyone thinks it's the most wonderful thing. But, when you mention two guys in love, they forget all that and freak out.

Mark A. Roeder

#21. We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#22. But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child
a true self who is waiting.

Gloria Steinem

#23. A child's attachment process begins within the first year of life ...

Asa Don Brown

#24. I'm seventeen and I'm crazy.

Ray Bradbury

#25. Faith is why I'm here today and faith is why I made it through.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#26. I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.

Kenny Guinn

#27. I've always wanted to play the villain. But the young girl is never the villain.

Katherine Waterston

#28. Christianity is a knowledge and not a faith based religious belief system. One must have a peg on which to hang ones hat-of-faith.

R. Alan Woods

#29. 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

#30. The Republicans' plan is that if they can't buy the 2012 election they will steal it.

Elizabeth Drew

#31. Between dainty bites, she told Amie, 'Oh, you simply are as darling a creature as Henry described! I had no idea of your being so grown up! Henry, she is positively frazzleging!'
Amie deepened her smile, saying, 'And I had no idea you would be so pretty either, madam.

Jennifer Silverwood