“If we could somehow end child abuse and neglect, the eight hundred pages of DSM (and the need for the easier explanations such as DSM-IV Made Easy: The Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis) would be shrunk to a pamphlet in two generations.”
“There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages, which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred pages are there. Only you don’t see them.”
“It was easier to scribble over memories a person didn't want to remember, so they searched for these people - the abused and neglected.”
“one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill.”
“We need more child abuse laws, these kids have been abusing us parents long enough.”
“It's easier to throw away a child who reacts to his abuse than attempt to heal his pain.”