673 Quotes About Child-abuse

The child who attends school does not remember the abuse that happens at home or via the family; those memories are held in another part of the child's mind. The child does not even remember abuse that happened the preceding night.

Many ritually abusive cults deliberately divide the personality system down the middle of the head, making sure that there is no communication between the two sides. “Left side" parts might be instructed to speak to no one other than the perpetrators.

If we are taken all together, we might muster some courage, but from the previous evidence it is likely that we will be taken separately.

How much our society values its children can be measured by how well they are treated and protected.

Josh joined her at the window. She let him look. He should know that the world was not all lessons and iguanas and Nintendo. It was also this muddy simple boy tethered like an animal.

Not even Carol knows firsthand how it feels to be hurt in such a way by someone who's supposed to protect you

Cruel Harvest by Fran Elizabeth Grubb is a memoir that will touch your heart.