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All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection.

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To forget and to repress would be a good solution if there were no more to it than that. But repressed pain blocks emotional life and leads to physica...more

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The public forum is not, of course, the most helpful place to conduct a profitable confrontation with one's parents. If we are to allow the feelings o...more

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Child abuse damages a person for life and that damage is in no way diminished by the ignorance of the perpetrator. It is only with the uncovering of t...more

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Not to take one's own suffering seriously, to make light of it or even to laugh at it, is considered good manners in our culture.

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A human being born into a cold, indifferent world will regard his situation as the only possible one.

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Cruelty is the opposite of love, and its traumatic effect, far from being reduced, is actually reinforced if it is presented as a sign of love.

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The more we idealized the past, however, and refuse to acknowledge or childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generat...more

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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 par...more

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Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptanc...more

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Because the victims are “only children,” their distress is trivialized. But in twenty years’ time these children will be adult who will feel compelled...more