Abused Children Quotes

• 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

  Children, Home, Responsibility

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• Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.

  Herbert Ward

  Children, Abuse, Domestic Violence

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• Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.

  Tim Roth

  Children, Thinking, Government

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• I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would like take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry.

  Rick James

  Mother, Children, Father

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• In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.

  Bob Ney

  Believe, Views, Law

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• Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.

  Robert Casey

  Children, Mean, Parenting

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• There can be no better measure of our governance than the way we treat our children, and no greater failing on our part than to allow them to be subjected to violence, abuse or exploitation.

  Jessica Lange

  Children, Political, Abuse

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• We know that many boys and girls leave school because of poverty, because they have to work. However, there are an important number of children who abandon their studies because of the abuses they're subject to by teachers and their own parents.

  Shakira

  Girl, Education, Teacher

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• Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse.

  Mary Garden

  Religious, Sex, Children

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• I keep wondering how to explain the experience of child abuse from the inside. I'm going to try to explain what my world was like when I was sexually abused. The thing you have to remember is that this was the thinking of a child.

  Robin Quivers

  Children, Thinking, Abuse

  "I Didn’t Tell!" by Robin Quivers, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2011.

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• To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse.

  Neal Barnard

  Children, Animal, Giving

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• 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

  Children, Believe, Abuse

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• 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

  Children, Health, Drug

  "Hyde Park centre stage of greatest show on earth" by Vanessa Thorpe and Jamie Doward, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2005.

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• It's important to talk about it. You raise awareness. But you can also prevent it (child abuse) by not letting it be a secret.

  Chris Witty

  Children, Abuse, Secret

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• No guarantees come with children's liberation. But neither the promise of great benefits to all nor the prediction of great difficulties ahead can serve as the reason for granting or denying rights to children. Rights will be granted because without them children are incapacitated, oppressed, and abused.

  Richard Farson

  Children, Rights, Promise

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• The abused children are alone with their suffering, not only within the family, but also within themselves. They cannot crate a place in their own soul where they could cry their beart out.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Self Esteem, Soul

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• You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don't stay children forever. No one magically becomes an adult the day they turn eighteen. Some people grow up sooner, many grow up later. Some never really do. But just remember that some people in this world are older versions of those same kids we cry for.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Depression, Mom, Growing Up

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• The abused child goes on living within those who have survived such torture, a torture that ended with total repression. They live with the darkness of fear, oppression, and threats. When all its attempts to move the adult to heed its story have failed, it resorts to the language of symptoms to make itself heard. Enter addiction, psychosis, criminality.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Moving, Psychosis

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• When abused children under court protection were studied in California and Massachusetts, it turned out that a disproportionate number of them were unattractive...abused kids had head and face proportions that made them look less infantile and cute.

  Nancy Etcoff

  Cute, Children, Kids

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• Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in an environment of coercive control is not well adapted to adult life. The survivor is left with fundamental problems in basic trust, autonomy, and initiative. She approaches the tasks of early adulthood-establishing independence and intimacy-burdened by major impairments in self-care, in cognition and memory, in identity, and in the capacity to form stable relationships. She is still a prisoner of her childhood; attempting to create a new life, she reencounters the trauma.

  Judith Lewis Herman

  Growing Up, Memories, Children

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• In 1977, at age ten, I was cast on the TV sitcom 'Good Times.' My character was Penny, an abused child in desperate need of love. I really didn't want to do the show. I didn't want to be away from my family.

  Janet Jackson

  Children, Character, Age

  Janet Jackson (2011). “True You”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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