Top 20 Child Abuse Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Child Abuse Quotes from famous people such as Patch Adams, Naomi Wolf, Cheryl Burke, Dave Pelzer, Owen Jones, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse?

Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything about Britney Spears and nothing about nature or faith, about anything, is that not a form of child abuse?
Patch Adams
As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery – much of it violent – that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
Naomi Wolf
I went through child abuse, and I also went through abuse with dating a couple of boyfriends in high school. I also have gone through a divorce.
Cheryl Burke
What distresses me at times is that I meet a lot of people in their 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, who still say they’re a victim of child abuse.
Dave Pelzer
Few would deny the importance of tackling online hatred or child abuse content. The internet, after all, has become a key weapon for those who disseminate and incite hatred and violence against minorities, and for those who pose a horrifying threat to children.
Owen Jones
The government doesn’t really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I’d really heard about polygamists.
Jeanne Tripplehorn
Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.
Robert Casey
I keep wondering how to explain the experience of child abuse from the inside. I’m going to try to explain what my world was like when I was sexually abused. The thing you have to remember is that this was the thinking of a child.
Robin Quivers
I would certainly choose my jobs depending on the actions of the character. I won’t do anything that has to do with child abuse or women’s abuse.
Kathleen Turner
There was no such thing as child abuse. Parents owned their children. They could do whatever they wanted.
Ellen Burstyn
There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it’s the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.
bell hooks
School, social interaction is our first reresponse to child abuse. It’s witnessing it, seeing it, reporting it.
Will Cain
I think it’s child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it’s at the cost of someone’s natural development. It’s already hard enough to develop.
Alanis Morissette
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.
David Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes
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.
Lynn Johnston
Parental child abduction is child abuse.
Chris Smith
Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.
Alan Bennett
Growing up in bars might sound like child abuse. And if it does, then you’re what my mom would call ‘Protestants.’
Rory O’Malley
I will check the internet for at least an hour every morning scanning worldwide news to do with child abuse. So if you’re constantly putting yourself in an environment where you’re checking up on social economics or homelessness problems, if you keep yourself aware of it, you don’t really have a day off.
Samantha Morton
Is discipline (both mental and physical) in place of coddling truly child abuse? I don’t know, but it sure as hell is effective.
Steven Crowder