Alice Walker Quotes

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

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

Every parent can imagine the joys of child abuse.

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

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

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.

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

I come from a place where there's violence and inarticulacy. I worked in a pub from the age of 12 or 13. I used to see people smashing glasses over each other. I was never tough. I was scared of them.

We need to assure that we are nurturing our children and meeting their every need in this violent world.

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.

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured, but we can reduce the number of tortured children.

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

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.

Children especially deserve our support after they are rescued from those who have victimized them.

It's shocking that so many children still live in fear as a result of violence in the home, and don't know who to turn to for help and support. As a child survivor of domestic violence I can remember the fear and isolation. I'm delighted to support the Hideout, the new Women's Aid website for children and young people. I know it could have made a real difference to me and will provide great comfort and support to thousands of children.

I know it's hard for you to trust me. If I ever find the man who did this to you, who made you so frightened, I'll kill him with my bare hands. But you can trust me.

In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term the results are inability to learn, violence and rage, bullying, cruelty, inability to feel another's pain, especially that of one's own children, even drug addiction and suicide, unless there are enlightened or at least helping witnesses on hand to prevent that development.

I do not support child abuse. It's a disgusting crime of which I am a victim.

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.

May God forgive us for the times when we as individuals and as a Church failed to seek out and care for those little ones who were frightened, alone and in pain because someone was abusing them. That we did not always respond to your cries with the concern of the Good Shepherd is a matter of deep shame.

Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists.

The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.

Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.

I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them.