#neglect

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#calls #devotion #his #man #many

I tried to draw people more realistically, but the figure I neglected to update was myself. ↗

— Joe Sacco

#figure #i #i tried #more #myself

Faith is why I'm here today and faith is why I believe I can achieve something in my life. ↗

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#determination #faith #jonathan-anthony-burkett #life #life-quotes

The survivor movements were also challenging the notion of a dysfunctional family as the cause and culture of abuse, rather than being one of the many places where abuse nested. This notion, which in the 190s and early 198s was the dominant understanding of professionals characterised the sex abuser as a pathetic person who had been denied sex and warmth by his wife, who in turn denied warmth to her daughters. Out of this dysfunctional triad grew the far-too-cosy incest dyad. Simply diagnosed, relying on the signs: alcoholic father, cold distant mother, provocative daughter. Simply resolved, because everyone would want to stop, to return to the functioning family where mum and dad had sex and daughter concentrated on her exams. Professionals really believed for a while that sex offenders would want to stop what they were doing. They thought if abuse were decriminalised, abusers would seek help. The survivors knew different. P5 ↗

— Beatrix Campbell

#abusers #child-abuse #crime #criminal #dysfunctional-family

He learned how quickly love died when you weren't looking; if you weren't looking. ↗

— Andre Dubus

#love

My parents just neglected me, I wasn't abused or anything. ↗

— Andy Dick

#i #just #me #neglected #parents

It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#great #many #nation #neglected #ordinary

I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child. ↗

— Don Van Vliet

#child #enough #given #had #i

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another. ↗

— George Washington

#army #discipline #gives #hurtful #more

Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored, and worse, neglected. ↗

— Allen West

#cemeteries #country #day #fallen #forgotten