Angela Featherstone 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.

Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won't challenge unfit parents.

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.

We perhaps protect our pets better than our children.

Child Protection Services can get all up in your business if you have kids. Just strictly from a business standpoint, kids are a liability to landlords, and they actually provoke evictions.

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.

If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good.

Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.

I did criminal defense work part-time, and that paid the bills for representing abused and neglected children... and for defending in juvenile court those kids the 'child protective system' had missed when it had the chance.

The real Michael Jackson that has not been seen... with children, one in diapers, the other two toddlers.

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.

My personal position is that society must keep children safe.

It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

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

She hits me and she beats me and she drinks. My mom is an alcoholic.

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.

One missing child is one too many.

We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets.

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

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

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

It's crazy how people just don't care sometimes about the kids they have.

My dad has spent 20 years of his life working in child protection and writing policy for organisations across Australia in order to recognise and safeguard against abuse.

We must do everything we can to ensure the safety of our children.