On top of the abuse and neglect, denial heaps more hurt upon the child by requiring the child to alienate herself from reality and her own experience. In troubled families, abuse and neglect are permitted;...

Non-alcoholic ways in which parents may not ‘be there’ for the children can include: – violence and sexual abuse – workholism – gambling – transquilliser addiction- – womanizing – frequent journeys abroad – death- suicide-...

It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.

Quick dinner with … Ang [Lee] and his wife Jane who’s visiting with the children for a while. We talked about her work as a microbiologist and the behaviour of the epithingalingie under the influence...

When loneliness is a constant state of being, it harkens back to a childhood wherein neglect and abandonment were the landscape of life.

I wished, as it were, to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up every habit of my nature, should be completed.

Where you are now is as a result of either your choice or someone’s choice. If you neglect the ideas of choosing the ultimate things for yourself, someone will hire you by choosing the average...

If one abuses or neglects internal powers, external forces will act accordingly.