Andrew Vachss Quotes

If you've got kids who aren't being looked after by their parents, there's only so many times you can try and intervene to get that right.

My personal position is that society must keep children safe.

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.

I've always been concerned with what happens to children in our society when there's nobody left to take care of them.

I will do everything possible to stop crimes against children.

Society chooses to disregard the mistreatment of children, judging it to be altogether normal because it is so commonplace.

No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.

The courts don't remove children from their home because the child underperformed at school or required extra long walks or a game of basketball in order to blow off the steam all 5-year-olds have. It's because the parents were unfit, not the kids.

America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.

The proper care and rearing of a child is integral to their development. It breaks my heart to know that some children's futures are being destroyed within their own homes.

No civilized society ought to fear for the safety of its children.

We perhaps protect our pets better than our children.

I really am glad that the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has had the courage to stand up and say that children should not be hit under any circumstances. I am a committed supporter of this campaigning charity for children.

I would like to use the law of this land to do everything I possibly can to protect America's children from abuse and violence and to give to each of them the opportunity to grow to be strong, healthy and self-sufficient citizens of this country.

Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.

We must simply do every single thing in our power to protect our children from abuse and help them live healthy, prosperous lives.

Abused And neglected children have paid the price for liberalism's tendency to sentimentalize the poor.

We are behaving like people without compassion and love for the most vulnerable section of society. The children of the universe are without a spokesperson, they are voiceless...We are all touched by the atrocities committed against children: sexual, physical abuse, child slave labor, educational neglect. We feel ashamed. Angry. Appalled. But there is no action...No action.

We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of our neglect.

Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences and nuisances, when they're not treating them as possessions or toys.

I won't give up until the exploitation of all children has ended and all children have their rights.

The abuse of children is the worst offence that anybody can commit.

No child's behind left.

Child abuse is one of those issues that's very difficult to talk about because it's surrounded by guilt and shame and so on, but us avoiding that issue doesn't help those kids in need out there who need support.

Every parent can imagine the joys of child abuse.