Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding.

The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions, and achievements that can suddenly fail.

If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others.

For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath.

An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time.

Children who are respected learn respect. Children who are cared for learn to care for those weaker than themselves. Children who are loved for what they are cannot learn intolerance. In an environment such as this, they will develop their own ideals, which can be nothing other than humane, since they grew out of the experience of love.

Child abuse damages a person for life and that damage is in no way diminished by the ignorance of the perpetrator. It is only with the uncovering of the complete truth as it affects all those involved that a genuinely viable solution can be found to the dangers of child abuse.