Amy Klobuchar Quotes

Children of domestic violence, of course, suffer terrible consequences.

There was a ton of fighting between my mother and father. The kids would be thrown into the middle, to choose sides.

The worst violence we can do to each other often is psychological, especially in families. I dwell a lot on domestic danger. That's the backdrop of most of my novels - what kind of damage is done without ever lifting a finger.

If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.

If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.

Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12.

There are endless new variations on how to hurt a woman physically, emotionally, financially, and socially.

Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability.

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would 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.

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to find violence.

Parental child abduction is child abuse.

My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us.

For far too many women the number one health risk is the violence we face in our own home.

No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral husband and father over herself and children, not only from physical abuse, but from spiritual shame and humiliation, must be such as the man himself can not possibly comprehend.

Domestic violence is much more prevalent than people realize.

Violence against women and children resembles an epidemic. It has spread through society, sparing no social group or class.

My father was actually controlling and abusive.

I grew up watching my mom and my stepdad fight.

Domestic violence was a way of life in my home growing up, my brother and I watched helplessly numerous times as my mother was beaten and knocked unconscious while we dialed 911.

An abusive relationship is worse than being in prison. I mean literally, not figuratively.

It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.

I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.

Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction over being violent to women, children, and one another.