Jimmy Carter Quotes

You don’t play around with the lives of children.

An ever-widening definition of abuse can incite a culture of fear and complaint: encouraging teachers and girls to name and shame could mean labelling sexually awkward teenage boys as sex pests.

What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?

I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I'm sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.

It's quite difficult for a parent to know that their daughter is in great danger.

It’s not a woman’s issue, it’s a family issue.

Once you have kids, horror movies become too horrible to watch because you imagine your own children in those situations, so you stop watching them.

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

Parents, you need to watch who you let loose your girls around. If you're so desperate that you want your kids to be stars, and you're going to unleash your daughters to the world, you better watch what you get.

Parents fear for their children. Absolutely, I think it's a deep and troubling theme to explore.

I believe a lot of people that are gay, had even had problems like I had in the past. I think they've been hurt by somebody from the opposite sex, and they don't know how to function right in those relationships.

One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.

As a parent my greatest fear is always anything that endangers my children.

Empirically, all pornography is made under conditions of inequality based on sex, overwhelmingly by poor, desperate, homeless, pimped women who were sexually abused as children.

I'm a child who was abused. I know the difference. I clearly know the difference. The whipping for correction and then their child abuse.

If words could break souls, my words just broke his in two.

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.

I don't believe that sex with 13-year-olds is okay.

THE most widespread form of child abuse in the United States is parents sending children to the government to be educated.

I look at history, there's not a government on the planet I respect. No country in history was ever safe to its women; internet sex is $100 billion a year industry, and 15-20 million men a day have sex with a child in sexual slavery.

I simply cannot fathom the horrors of being enslaved, and the thought that children are ripped apart from their families and used year in and out for sex and hard labor under the threat of violence and death breaks my heart.

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.

[P]ain is a marvelous purifier. . . It is not necessary to beat the child into submission; a little bit of pain goes a long way for a young child. However, the spanking should be of sufficient magnitude to cause the child to cry genuinely.

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.

Cross-generational sex is the phenomenon in which young girls are given material goods in exchange for sex. All girls are vulnerable to it, particularly orphans.