Jack Straw Quotes

I come from a broken home. My parents split up when I was nine. Everyone gave me a good wallop. But I come from a time when you just put up with that, you got on with things rather than sitting moaning about them.

I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me.

I was an abused kid.

Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.

Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.

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

The only thing my old man ever gave me was a beating.

My dad was a violent alcoholic. Really aggressive.

No matter how much poverty you grow up with, you shouldn't be subjected to violence and abuse.

I came from a tough childhood. There was a lot of stuff that I'd actually forgotten or that I'd blocked or hidden away until I started addressing it.

I was abused my family was the "brady bunch

I punched my mother out once.

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

What distresses me at times is that I meet a lot of people in their 40's, 50's, 60's, who still say they're a victim of child abuse.

My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.

Mother beat the hell out of us. She'd have wild outbursts.

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

My mother would beat me so bad, I wouldn't be able to sit down. And I would never snitch.

My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.

My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied with more anxiety than anger, my father who beat me as if someone might steal me away, because that was exactly what was happening all around us.

I just broke up all the furniture in the house. My mother had to get rid of me. So she put me in dance class.

We recognize that violence is a learned behavior. One of the best classrooms for learning violence is in the home.

I went through child abuse, and I also went through abuse with dating a couple of boyfriends in high school. I also have gone through a divorce.

I had lived with abuse for many years, but the worst abuse has been at my own hands and the appalling situations I have tolerated.

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