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“My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.”

Mind Children Today Violence Amount Today's Society

Author:Samantha Morton

“Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.”

Children Parent Violence Victim Ill Mentally Ill

Author:Rich Lowry

“One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence. They grew up in war. They were taught to hate. They were, they grew up in very ignorant cultures where they didn't learn about the outside world.”

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Author:Greg Mortenson

“How many more tragedies does it take before we do something? How many more children have to die before this country realizes that No Gun Zones create perfect locations for violence? You can not stop criminals and mad men with laws, you can only stop violence with the fear of armed victims.”

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Author:Alan Gottlieb

“We lose eight children and teenagers to gun violence every day. If a mysterious virus suddenly started killing eight of our children every day, America would mobilize teams of doctors and public health officials. We would move heaven and earth until we found a way to protect our children. But not with gun violence.”

Source: A Fighting Chance

“I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and no sexual content beyond what you might find in a PG-rated movie – expressions of who likes whom, holding hands, and perhaps the occasional kiss. The idea that we should treat sexual orientation itself as an adults-only topic, however, is absurd. Non-heterosexual children exist. To pretend they do not, to fail to recognize that they have needs for support and validation like any child, would be bad teaching, bad writing, and bad citizenship.”

“We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children.”

Children Violence Adults

Author:Elie Wiesel

“But many researchers operate as if it is their responsibility to demonstrate that video violence has a direct effect on the behaviour of young children, because that will help to explain why society is becoming more violent.”

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Author:Hugh Mackay

“I'm not someone who ever enjoys violence against women or children.”

Children Enjoy Violence Violence Against Women

Author:Lucy Lawless

“When we commit violence against an infant girl, we call it child abuse; when we commit violence against an infant boy, we call it circumcision.”

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Book:The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex