Child Abuse Prevention Quotes

“when traumatic events are of human design, those who bear witness are caught in the conflict between victim and perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear, and speak no evil. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of pain. The victim demands action, engagement and remembering.”
― Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

“If someone would have talked in school about safe touch and unsafe touch, I believe I would have spoken up as a child and not been victimized over and over again for years, but that day never came, which is why my mission now is to protect children from the childhood I could not be protected from.”
― Erin Merryn, An Unimaginable Act: Overcoming and Preventing Child Abuse Through Erin's Law

“As in so many cases of sexual abuse within the family, it is much more complicated than had it been done by a stranger.”
― Erin Merryn, Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness

“The entrance into the family of an outside professional with legal authority is always a crisis-ridden event, but it may be the best insurance that the incest will not continue.”
― Janis Tyler Johnson, Mothers of Incest Survivors: Another Side of the Story

“Neglect is a form of implicit abuse.”
― Abhijit Naskar