Help at Any Cost Quotes

“Another crucial reform would be a federal mandate that kids in all residential programs must have unmonitored access to an abuse hotline that would trigger immediate investigation.”
― Maia Szalavitz, Help At Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids

“Figuring that “it can’t hurt” to intervene “before it gets worse,” is an error that many parents who resort to tough love regret forever.”
― Maia Szalavitz, Help At Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids

“By making love conditional, tough love undermines familial affection, removing the one refuge where people can ordinarily assume they are loved for who they are, not what they do.”
― Maia Szalavitz, Help At Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids

“Newton’s language choices were Orwellian: restraining others was “a privilege”; having no freedom of speech, movement, or activity was “a respite.”
― Maia Szalavitz, Help At Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids