Per Mertesacker Quotes

One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.

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

So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.

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

The worst thing you could do is scare a kid or trick them. Never, ever, ever do that.

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

My relationship was always abusive, so I chose to not socialise much. People who knew me knew that what pain I was going through.

Not all forms of abuse leave bruises.

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 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.

I grew up in a very toxic home.

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

There was mental and physical abuse in my family.

My dad works in child protection and he's spent many, many years in that line of work.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

I am deeply aware of the pain caused to any victim of child abuse, especially at the hands of a trustworthy person within the church. I do encourage any person who believes they have been a victim of abuse to come forward and to inform the police.

I want to set up orphanages for underprivileged and abused children.

If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma.

I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.

It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied.

We ought to regard the breaking of a child's spirit as a sin against humanity.

I will not put up with bullying and harassment - certainly not after the experiences I've had.

Let's not glamorize abuse.