social problems: violence and abuse quotes

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Spare the rod and spoil the child.
Children are extraordinarily precious members of society; they are exquisitely alert, sensitive, and conscious of their surroundin ...
The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
Certainly, words can be as abusive as any blow. . . . When a three-year-old yells, "You're so stupid! What a dummy!" it doesn't ca ...
When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, ...
If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly c ...
Much is made of the accelerating brutality of young people's crimes, but rarely does our concern for dangerous children translate ...
We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnucle ...
While violent families often suffer from the stresses of poverty, family violence occurs at all levels of the social class structu ...
Can we not teach children, even as we protect them from victimization, that for them to become victimizers constitutes the greates ...
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