Quotes About Parental Abuse

#1. Life is about loving it not only living it.

Debasish Mridha

#2. By sad experience I know what sorrows She must endure, who marries into a family unwilling to receive her.

Matthew Gregory Lewis

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

Alice Miller

#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. When you touch a man's body, he will enjoy the moment, when you touch a man's heart he will remember it forever.

Dixie Waters

#6. I continue to live inside a dichotomy: what was and what shall be. The pain in my skull is me trying to mesh the two.

Chila Woychik

#7. 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

#8. I've never had a message for anyone in my entire life. Except maybe to give out my room number.

Bon Scott

#9. Parental child abduction is child abuse.

Chris Smith

#10. We have come far, but there is an ongoing battle to be fought. Many of the issues the Suffragettes were dealing with are still issues today across the globe: equal pay, parental rights, sexual abuse, etc.

Sarah Gavron

#11. The horror of incest is not in the sexual act. but in the exploitation of children and the corruption of parental love. p4

Judith Lewis Herman

#12. And we have much better examples of the government not intervening to curtain parental rights, much worse abuse than a simple tap on the hand or a spank is perpetrated by many parents across the country, trust me.

Sean Hannity

#13. Whenever a group produces murderers, the early parental relationship must have been abusive and neglectful. Yet this elementary truth has not even begun to be considered in historical research; just stating that poor mothering lies behind wars seems blasphemous.

Lloyd DeMause

#14. It is regarded as axiomatic that parents have more power then children. This is an inescapable biological fact; young children are completely dependent on their parents or other caring adults for survival.

Judith Lewis Herman

#15. Once, when I was grumbling over being obliged to eat meat and do no penance, I heard it said that sometimes there was more of self-love than desire of penance in such sorrow. St. Teresa

Aldous Huxley

#16. Parental Alienation is an emotional act of violence that is aimed at an adult, but critically wounds a child.

Steve Maraboli

#17. It's a pretty big shadow. It gives me lots of room to spread myself.

Lou Gehrig

#18. 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

#19. When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level. You feel a oneness with whatever you perceive in and through stillness.

Eckhart Tolle

#20. For loose teeth the tooth fairy recommends tying your tooth to a brick and throwing said brick down the stairs.

Nicole McKay