“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.”

— James W. Prescott

"Before Ethics and Morality" (1972)

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American psychologist 1930

James W. Prescott (1930) American psychologist

"Body Pleasure and the Origins of Violence" (1975)

“Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.”

Nick Bostrom (1973) Swedish philosopher

In Defence of Posthuman Dignity http://www.nickbostrom.com/ethics/dignity.html, Bioethics, Vol. 19, Iss. 3 (2005), p. 211

“When a government subsidy deprives the child of its dad the government is really subsidizing child abuse.”

Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part III: Government as substitute husband, p. 348.

“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.”

Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex, p. 221.

“Sociologists and historians have avoided looking for the family sources of wars and social violence. Whenever a group produces murderers, the early parental relationship must have been abusive and neglectful. Yet this elementary truth has not even begun to be considered in historical research; just stating that poor mothering lies behind wars seems blasphemous.”

Lloyd deMause (1931) American thinker

Source: The Emotional Life of Nations (2002), Ch. 6, p. 153.

“By social movements we mean a certain type of organisation of social practices, the logic of whose development contradicts the institutionally dominant social logic”

Manuel Castells (1942) Spanish sociologist (b.1942)

Source: Urban renewal and social conflict in Paris, 1972, p. 93

“The detrimental effects of infant physical affectional deprivation seem to be compensated for later in life by sexual body pleasure experiences during adolescence.”

James W. Prescott (1930) American psychologist

"Body Pleasure and the Origins of Violence" (1975)

“The abnormal social and emotional behaviors that result from parental and social (somatosensory) deprivation are directly related to impaired brain functioning.”

James W. Prescott (1930) American psychologist

"Before Ethics and Morality" (1972)

“You will have a great deal of unreserved discourse with Mrs. K., I dare say, upon this subject, as well as upon many other of our family matters. Abuse everybody but me.”

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist

Letter to Cassandra (1807-01-07) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters

“If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.”

Bette Davis (1908–1989) film and television actress from the United States

Variant: If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

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