Maltreatment Quotes

Traumatic experiences in early childhood may interfere with the child's ability to securely attach.

A child's temperament appears to play another significant role in the child's own perceptions and worldview.

We have laws about human rights in place for a reason and even if those laws are so often not enforced BY the law, these laws teach us our rights as human beings. I was shocked when I first discovered them, but at the same time I found them empowering; especially the ones about emotional abuse and neglect. Always remember that we are healing from the damage and that before the damage can be overcome, it has to be acknowledged.Acceptance in the context of accepting what happened is not the same thing as acceptance of the person who did it. Accepting the way a person “is” does not apply when abuse or mistreatment is involved. There is a big difference in accepting someone’s “faults”, verses accepting abusive treatment.

Perception and worldview are one's summary of life.

Survivors of trauma may have difficulty initiating relationships ...

Trauma may be endured through a physiological or psychological threat to life or overall wellbeing.

My traumatic experience was life changing

Abuse may consist of physical maltreatment or language that is belittling, discriminatory...

A child's attachment process begins within the first year of life...

There is no debating that the effects of trauma experienced in childhood may have grave consequences.

Attachments that are not fostered may lend to the child's inability to properly attach or have no attachment at all.

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.

Arthur Conan Doyle