We don't distinguish between the various forms of child abuse. Emotional abuse... is pretty much ignored. When someone spends their life being told, 'You're stupid, you're a disgrace, I should have aborted you, you ruined my life,' it scars them in ways that are almost impossible to describe with words. And yet, such a person describing their life would be told, 'Oh, you weren't an incest victim? Oh, you weren't burned with cigarettes? So, how abused were you really?


Patty Satalia WPSU on October 24, 2004 [www.wpsu.org/radio/Audio/takenote/TN544.ram

Andrew Vachss Quotes

We don't distinguish between the various forms of child abuse. Emotional abuse... is pretty much ignored. When someone spends their life being told,...

We don't distinguish between the various forms of child abuse. Emotional abuse... is pretty much ignored. When someone spends their life being told,...

We don't distinguish between the various forms of child abuse. Emotional abuse... is pretty much ignored. When someone spends their life being told,...

We don't distinguish between the various forms of child abuse. Emotional abuse... is pretty much ignored. When someone spends their life being told,...