If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.
I was the problem and the solution.
And as she held me, I suddenly realized that my lifelong search for love and acceptance had finally ended in the arms of a foster parent.
When Benedict dies, he will have the pleasure of standing before whatever furious God he believes in, to answer for how it was that he knew for undeniable fact that one -- if not dozens -- of his prie...
SCREW CHILDREN! That's the mantra of the world. Instead of burying them with a national debt, shoving them in shitty schools, drugging them if they don't comply, hitting them, yelling at them, indoctr...
All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection.
We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.
One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.
Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are.
When there is abuse by itself it's scary enough. When there is abuse within a religious setting it is so terrifying to people... nobody can bear it when it's linked to religion, but when it's linked t...
It is, after all, far too easy to pinch and kick the bizarre Mormon Church; to say it's ripe for satire and parody is to say a Catholic schoolgirl is ripe for debauchery. It's like shooting polygamist...
If we are taken all together, we might muster some courage, but from the previous evidence it is likely that we will be taken separately.
We already live on the planet of war, we already live on the red planet, and it's a war against children. All the other wars are just the shadows of the war on children.
Asshole Proximity Disorder
All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering
All we think about in the cycle of violence is men. If we miss the oestrogen factor we cannot solve the cycle of violence. We cannot bring peace to the world unless we hold women accountable and moral...
Until we accept that our children have much more of a risk of being sexually abused than drowning in a pool, being struck by a car, stricken with cancer, hurt by a vaccination, or diagnosed with ebola...
Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business...because when you improve the world, you threaten the entrenched interests of evil people.
The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.
Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.