Unwanted Child Quotes

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

Bringing a child into the world makes sense only if this child is wanted consciously and freely by its two parents. If it is not, then it is simply animal and criminal behavior.

When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.

To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.

My son John was just under a year old when I collapsed with a life-threatening kidney disease. The shame and guilt resulting from my unplanned pregnancy had continued to fester to the point that my toxic feelings literally poisoned my body.

What was I supposed to be, growing in your womb -- assuming it was even in our womb that I was conceived? A seed of hope? A ticket purchased to ferry you from the dark? A patch for that hole you carried in your heart? If so, then I wasn't enough. I wasn't nearly enough. I was no balm to your pain, only another dead end, another burden, and you must have seen that early on. You must have realized it. But what could you do? You couldn't go down to the pawnshop and sell me.

When I was born my mother was terribly disappointed. Not that she wanted a girl - she wanted a divorce.

I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.

When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.

Abortion is murder in the womb...A child is a gift of God. If you do not want him, give him to me.

I tell ya I got a stupid son. That's one load that shoulda been shot on the wall.

I thought I was going to die. I was a teenager. It was the hardest thing I’d ever gone through. It’d be contradictory if I said I wasn’t pro-choice. I wasn’t ready. I didn’t have anything to offer a child.

I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.

When I was born I brought no joy, my father said he wanted a boy!

I was just the youngest in the family, and most in desperate need of attention.

My first failure was to be born a child not wanted by his father or mother, as they parted shortly after I was born.

The stigma of being an unmarried mother was something we can't comprehend today. It was not uncommon that you'd go off somewhere to have your child, then give it up for adoption.

I was born out of wedlock. Nobody brought me up.

I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

All of us growing up have come to terms with too much pain. Although we repress it, it's still there. The worst pain is that of not being wanted, of realising your parents do not need you in the way you need them.

I became the unnatural son of a few score of beaten men.

Many feel sorry for a person like David Platt. He was abandoned by his father, his mother wanted to abort him and his stepdad wanted him dead.

I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn't let you play with.

My brother and sister were much older. They were planned. I was not planned for. I was called the mistake, amongst other things.