Matt Blunt Quotes

My impression, having been in the Norwegian government for several years, is that taking a child into care is an extremely serious decision which is really taken as a last resort, when the situation warrants it, for the well-being of the children.

If you've got kids who aren't being looked after by their parents, there's only so many times you can try and intervene to get that right.

Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won't challenge unfit parents.

My dad worked for child protection.

My dad works in child protection and he's spent many, many years in that line of work.

I've always been concerned with what happens to children in our society when there's nobody left to take care of them.

My dad has spent 20 years of his life working in child protection and writing policy for organisations across Australia in order to recognise and safeguard against abuse.

Children are my pet cause. I have a foster child in El Salvador, and whenever I'm home, I work for the Adam Walsh Foundation, which finds missing children. I also do some hospital visits and other things for the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

I certainly believe in limited government but protecting children against injury abuse is certainly inside my sphere of things that the government should do.

I want to set up orphanages for underprivileged and abused children.

No one shall strike or caress a child.

I really am glad that the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has had the courage to stand up and say that children should not be hit under any circumstances. I am a committed supporter of this campaigning charity for children.

We must simply do every single thing in our power to protect our children from abuse and help them live healthy, prosperous lives.

A great foster parent can end the cycle of abuse and neglect, and impact not just the foster child's life, but also that child's future children's lives, the lives of people who would otherwise be victims of a lost foster child's crimes, and help end human trafficking and homelessness.

I do not support child abuse. It's a disgusting crime of which I am a victim.

The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent.

No child should be raised in a system. A system isn't a parent. Even the system knows this, which is why the Children and Family Services Division puts so much effort into finding permanent homes for the kids who are never going to be reunited with their birth parents.

No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.

The real Michael Jackson that has not been seen... with children, one in diapers, the other two toddlers.

My personal position is that society must keep children safe.

The courts don't remove children from their home because the child underperformed at school or required extra long walks or a game of basketball in order to blow off the steam all 5-year-olds have. It's because the parents were unfit, not the kids.

Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.

Child Protective Services, all over the country, need to be revamped top to bottom.

The most important element of the foster care system is getting kids out of foster care and into a permanent placement so they don't have to spend their entire childhoods in courtrooms, wondering if they will ever have a place to call home.