53 Neglected Child Quotes to Help You Understand & Advocate Better
Quotes about neglected children can be a beacon of light, a source of inspiration, and a call to action. These potent words encapsulate the pain and struggle of neglected children, but more importantly, they highlight their resilience, strength, and potential. Isn't it true that we often find the most profound wisdom in the midst of hardship? By engaging with these quotes, we are opening our minds and hearts to the experiences of these young souls, broadening our perspective, and cultivating empathy.
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Famous Neglected Child Quotes
A misbehaving child, is a discouraged child — Rudolf Dreikurs
The neglect this implied, the suffering and wasted quality of human life were appalling. — Fred Hollows
Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
The abused children are alone with their suffering, not only within the family, but also within themselves. They cannot crate a place in their own soul where they could cry their beart out. — Alice Miller
Lack of love from parents often motivates their children to go searching for love in other relationships. This search is often misguided and leads to further disappointment. — Gary Chapman
No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child — Maria Montessori
A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids. — Andrew Vachss
Every pampered child becomes a hated child.... There is no greater evil than the pampering of children. — Alfred Adler
Society chooses to disregard the mistreatment of children, judging it to be altogether normal because it is so commonplace. — Alice Miller
It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost. — Anna Freud
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. — Mother Teresa
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. — Mother Theresa
Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel. — Hedy Lamarr
Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime. — Herbert Ward
The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others. — Bell Hooks
Short Neglected Child Quotes
- Being an only child is a disease in itself. — G. Stanley Hall
- There is never a problem child; there is only a problem parent — Alexander Sutherland Neill
- Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
- A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. — Frank A. Clark
- A child that is given everything will rarely succeed in life. —
- I have a very childlike rage, and a very childlike loneliness. — Richey Edwards
People Writing About Neglected Child
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Alice Miller |
74 | 1128 |
 Rudolf Dreikurs |
13 | 495 |
 Fred Hollows |
9 | 487 |
 Abdullah Ahmad Badawi |
25 | 316 |
 Gary Chapman |
105 | 1069 |
 Maria Montessori |
374 | 17541 |
More Neglected Child Quotes
I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Suppressing a culture is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence. — Coretta Scott King
I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention. — Kenny Guinn
Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home. — Matt Blunt
By neglecting our garden, we are storing up for ourselves, in the not very distant future, a world catastrophe as bad as any atomic war, and we are doing it with all the bland complacency of an idiot child chopping up a Rembrandt with a pair of scissors. — Gerald Durrell
I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery. — John Bradshaw
Child abuse continues to be a significant problem in the United Sates. It was estimated that 2001,903,000 children were the victims of child abuse or neglect. Child abuse is a crime perpetrated on the innocent and the defenseless. — Pete Domenici
The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children. — Richard Linklater
But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child -- a true self who is waiting. — Gloria Steinem
I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse. — Tatum O'Neal
What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born. — Pearl Buck
We are behaving like people without compassion and love for the most vulnerable section of society. The children of the universe are without a spokesperson, they are voiceless...We are all touched by the atrocities committed against children: sexual, physical abuse, child slave labor, educational neglect. We feel ashamed. Angry. Appalled. But there is no action...No action. — Michael Jackson
My father had always said there are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water. After that, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect. — Ivy Baker Priest
If the semicolon is one of the neglected children in the family of punctuation marks these days, told to stay in its room and entertain itself, because mummy and daddy are busy, the apostrophe is the abused victim. — John Humphrys
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs ...[they] are an obligation put on us, a responsibility we have no right to neglect, nor to violate by cruelty. — James Herriot
Abused And neglected children have paid the price for liberalism's tendency to sentimentalize the poor. — Mona Charen
The state is now more involved than it ever has been in the raising of children. And children are now more neglected, more abused and more mistreated than they have been in our time. This is not a coincidence. This is not a coincidence. And with all due respect, I am here to tell you it does not take a village to raise a child. It takes a family to raise a child. — Bob Dole
The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of neglect and exposure. — Henry David Thoreau
We are guilty of many errors and many faults, But our worst crime is abandoning the children, Neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, His blood is being made, And his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer 'Tomorrow.' His name is 'Today.' — Gabriela Mistral
I think as a parent if you don't understand the perils of social media and what it does to kids, you're neglectful because it's probably the biggest polluter in a child's mind. — Raine Maida
Often when someone apologizes - like a parent who says to a child, "I'm very sorry I neglected you when you were a kid" - they also ask, "Do you forgive me?," because they want the other person to be over it. However, healing can take a great deal of time. And if we forgive too quickly, we cut the process short. — Harriet Lerner
We do not put enough emphasis on early childhood years. We neglect children in this society; as a society we're guilty of child neglect. If we could eliminate the vestiges of racism, if we could develop a more powerful agenda for child care, child development, and a more powerful education system, we could prevent a lot of the incapacities which in turn tend to generate structural unemployment. — Bruce Babbitt
When you take a child who's hollering like hell, sit him on your knee, and say "once upon a time", you stop him hollering. As long as you go on telling him a story, he will listen. Novelists who neglect this fundamental effect do so at their peril. They become what is known as the experimental novelist, and an experimental novel is not really a novel at all. — William Golding
By not paying attention to your body, you are putting it in the same predicament as a neglected child. How can a child be expected to develop normally if the parents pay no attention, if they ignore its cries for help, and remain indifferent to whether their child is happy or unhappy? — Deepak Chopra
It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person. — Louisa May Alcott
The community must assume responsibility for each child within its confines. Not one must be neglected whatever his condition. The community must see that every child gets the advantages and opportunities which are due him as a citizen and as a human being. — Pearl S. Buck
Each child represents either a potential addition to the protective capacity and enlightened citizenship of the nation or, if allowed to suffer from neglect, a potential addition to the destructive forces of a community. . . . The interests of the nation are involved in the welfare of this array of children no less than in our great material affairs. — Theodore Roosevelt
I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty. — Keri Russell
Never neglect an opportunity to play leap-frog; it is the best of all games, and, unlike the terribly serious and conscientious pastimes of modern youth, will never become professionalized. — Hesketh Pearson
As I presided over Massie's execution, I thought about the abuse and neglect he endured as a child in the foster care system. We failed to keep him safe, and our failure contributed to who he was as an adult. Instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars to kill him, what if we spent that money on other foster children so that we stop producing men like Massie in the first place? — Jeanne Woodford
Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by grown people . . . is a fertile source of suffering. — Henry Ward Beecher
Some mothers in today's world feel "cumbered" by home duties and are thus attracted by other more "romantic" challenges. Such women could make the same error of perspective that Martha made. The woman, for instance, who deserts the cradle in order to help defend civilization against the barbarians may well later meet, among the barbarians, her own neglected child. — Neal A. Maxwell
I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child. — Don Van Vliet
In Conclusion
The benefits of reading neglected child quotes are multifaceted. They are not just words; they are powerful narratives that can ignite a spark within us to bring about change. They remind us of the strength that lies within every child and inspire us to advocate for their rights. Isn't it time we saw the world through their eyes? By reading and sharing these quotes, we are not only acknowledging their struggle but also championing their resilience and hope. Remember, every neglected child is a potential beacon of light, and these quotes are a testament to their unyielding spirit.
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