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Whenever a group produces murderers, the early parental relationship must have been abusive and negl...

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When a man beats his boy, he wants a son who won't buck him. He's trying to make a coward. Ninety-ni...

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The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a ...

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The young and the old are defenseless against relatives who want to get rid of them by casting them ...

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Thomas SzaszCruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted

When fear rules, obedience is the only survival choice.

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Toni MorrisonGod Help the Child

When I was 14-15 There was nothing to my lifebut dancing and sexI'd go to night clubs and danceThen ...

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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being...

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All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feeli...

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Child abuse damages a person for life and that damage is in no way diminished by the ignorance of th...

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Alice Miller (psychologist)Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries

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

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Alice Miller (psychologist)Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries

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

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Alice Miller (psychologist)Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries

Cruelty is the opposite of love, and its traumatic effect, far from being reduced, is actually reinf...

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Alice Miller (psychologist)Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries

The more we idealized the past, however, and refuse to acknowledge or childhood sufferings, the more...

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Alice Miller (psychologist)For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

Child abuse is still sanctioned — indeed, held in high regard — in our society as long as it is defi...

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Alice Miller (psychologist)The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

Because the victims are “only children,” their distress is trivialized. But in twenty years’ time th...

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Often, to keep the family together, the woman will accept repeated beatings and rapes, emotional bat...

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There can be no love without justice. Until we live in a culture that no only respects but also upho...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abus...

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Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he ...

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To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for ...

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People generally don’t suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer fro...

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When a child disappears, the space she’d occupied is immediately filled with dozens of people. And t...

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If we are taken all together, we might muster some courage, but from the previous evidence it is lik...

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Since there was nothing at all I was certain of, since I needed to be provided at every instant with...

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I ...understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a ...

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