Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.
When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.
I thought The Visitation was good fun. We did some of that filming at Ealing on the big set.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
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.
When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone.
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.
To destroy is always the first step in any creation.