“All parents damage their children. This was their life together. Neglect. Violence. Silence.”
“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”
“All Children Have Brain Damage!”
“Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.”
“If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy theatrics and devoted it to improving the lives of children who have been born into lives of poverty, violence, and neglect, they could make a world shine.”
“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”