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I used to think that what scared me was the idea of being abandoned until someone said to me, 'Only children can be abandoned. Adults can't be abandoned because we have a choice. Children don't have a choice.'

— Demi Moore

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

From nine years old, I lived with fear. I saw our neighbours disappearing. I was scared that I would come home from school and my parents would not be there.

— Alek Wek

I've always been concerned with what happens to children in our society when there's nobody left to take care of them.

— Janet Fitch

Many people, for many reasons, feel rootless - but orphans and abandoned or abused children have particular cause.

— Christina Baker Kline

When you are abandoned by two parents as a baby - wow, that is something to live with.

— Marion Cotillard

However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.

— Robert Neelly Bellah

If someone feels that they're abandoned, there are always complicated feelings. There are always reasons for why people do the things that they do.

— Maurissa Tancharoen

When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn't have parents.

— Angelina Jolie

People need to know that they are not alone, that they have not been abandoned; but that there is One Who loves them for what they are, Who cares about them.

— Dada Vaswani

✗Opposing Perspectives

My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.

— Halle Berry

Grown-ups are afraid for children. It's not children who are afraid.

— Maurice Sendak