Quotes About Parental Neglect

#1. If anyone wishes to see how the soul dwells in its body, let him observe how this body uses its daily habitation; that is to say, if this is devoid of order and confused, the body will be kept in disorder and confusion by its soul ...

Leonardo Da Vinci

#2. As Brits, we love a do, don't we? I adore our national celebrations. If I see a gold coach, you almost need to put me in a straitjacket, I get so excited.

Joanna Lumley

#3. The only solution to the violence problem in America is a return to traditional parental involvement. This should be encouraged by every elected official. Also, the abandonment and neglect of children by their parents should have civil consequences.

Bill O'Reilly

#4. Many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.

Jane Austen

#5. There is a danger when you leave the past behind, and reinvent your life, that at some point you'll look at yourself, and no longer recognize who you see.

Erin McCarthy

#6. At critical junctures, outer trouble and the inner need to grow conspire to set each of us on a path of awakening and initiation.

Michael Meade

#7. When I'm in really good shape, I like my butt. It's juicy - that's what my fiance says.

Ali Larter

#8. Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.

Erica Jong

#9. Parental teaching is a natural duty
who so fit to look to the child's well being as those who are the authors of his actual being? To neglect the instruction of our offspring is worse than brutish. Family religion is necessary for the nation, for the family itself, and for the church of God.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#10. 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

#11. Get a child interested in learning a skill while young and they will remember forever.

Sybrina Durant

#12. I don't know how to do the other, so I won't even consider television until the audience's taste changes.

Mary Tyler Moore

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

Alice Miller

#14. I lay awake long into the night, obsessing over Lucy's failings. Never mind the drugs and adultery; she seemed to lack the most basic parental instincts for keeping the children out of harm's way. The drip, drip, drip of her poor judgment and neglect was pushing me over the edge.

James Whitfield Thomson