Child Maltreatment Quotes

The abuse of children is the worst offence that anybody can commit.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Society chooses to disregard the mistreatment of children, judging it to be altogether normal because it is so commonplace.

Children are all criminally insane, and must be destroyed!

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

Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world.

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

Liberal child welfare experts decided that child abuse was not evidence of a moral or character flaw in the abusing parent. Instead, like poverty, crime, and homelessness, child abuse came to be viewed as evidence of a societal failure.

In the supposedly enlightened eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, parental indifference, child neglect, and raw cruelty appearedamong Europeans of all classes.... In mid-nineteenth- century France, families abandoned their children at the rate of thirty-three thousand a year.... It took sixty years after the criminalization of cruelty to animals for cruelty to children to be made punishable under English law.... Industrialized America added brutalizing child labor to the oppressions of the young.

I'm a child who was abused. I know the difference. I clearly know the difference. The whipping for correction and then their child abuse.

Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding.

Child abuse is still sanctioned — indeed, held in high regard — in our society as long as it is defined as child-rearing. It is a tragic fact that parents beat their children in order to escape the emotions from how they were treated by their own parents.

You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian.

Child abuse is one of those issues that's very difficult to talk about because it's surrounded by guilt and shame and so on, but us avoiding that issue doesn't help those kids in need out there who need support.

The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.