It shouldn’t hurt to be a child.
Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul. – Dave Pelzer
Children are like different roses. Don’t crush and spoil their fragrance.
Abuse changes your life…Fight Back and change the life of your abusers by Breaking Your Silence on Abuse! – Patty Rase Hopson
Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime. – Herbert Ward
It’s important to talk about it. You raise awareness. But you can also prevent child abuse by not letting it be a secret. – Chris Witty
Any nation that neglects the plight of the girl child will soon go underground.
The only reason why child abuse is alive today, is because we as adults fail our children when we fail to listen to them. Listen to a child today! – Heather McClane
Child abuse does not go away, but 90 percent of child abuse is preventable. – Karen Adams
Whilst child abuse may be committed behind closed doors, it should never be swept under the carpet. – Constance Briscoe
Child abuse is a problem no one really talks about. Abuse and neglect is the number 1 cause of injury to children in the country. More children die of abuse or neglect than of natural causes. – Donna Miller
I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry. – Rick James
Most of the people we see don’t want to live in a shelter and feel safe in their own little camp. Experience has taught me that almost 100 percent of these people suffered abuse as children. Well over half have emotional, mental problems. Most have drug and alcohol problems. – John Gallagher
A lot of people in our community don’t want to believe that child abuse happens in their neighborhoods but it does. – Shari Pulliam
Abuse manipulates and twists a child’s natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her feelings. She can’t afford to feel the full range of feelings in her body while she’s being abused-pain, outrage, hate, vengeance, confusion, arousal. So she short-circuits them and goes numb. For many children, any expression of feelings, even a single tear, is cause for more severe abuse. Again, the only recourse is to shut down. Feelings go underground. – Laura Davis
Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child’s tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It’s not funny and it’s not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn’t the least bit funny. – Ben Stein
Child abuse is a heinous and personally damaging crime; it is therefore incumbent on the Church to treat such matters with the utmost seriousness. – John Sentamu
Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development, compared to children whose parents use authoritarian methods and punishment. – Simon Baron-Cohen
Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse.
The consequences of your denial will be with you for a lifetime and will be passed down to the next generations. Break your Silence on Abuse! – Patty Rase Hopson
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