“What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.”

“I want every child that's born in the world to be planned and wanted.”

“Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.”

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.”
Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum.

“Contrary to Dr. Benjamin Spock, it is harmful for a baby to cry itself to sleep. …we not only teach the child distrust… but also establish patterns of neglect…”

“The home seems to me to be the proper sphere for the man. And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not?”

“The child is a combination of the father and the mother. Therefore, he is the role model of his parents.”

“The CHILD must know that he is a MIRACLE, that since the beginning of the world there hasn’t been, and until the end of the world will not be, another child like him.”

“No one is so brilliant that he can afford to neglect what history can teach him.”

“The effects of "maternal-social" deprivation, institutionalization, hospitalization, and of parental abuse, neglect, and indifference, upon infant and child development have been well described by many investigators.”