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“We cannot deal with things that we're afraid to talk about, ... We actually have to begin to take on the links that we know of between incest and alcohol and drug abuse. This is huge.”
Carolyn Bennett
“It worries me that people think having it should make them feel better.”
“We need to do everything we can to help in those families with parenting skills, with community support.”
“They're obviously pretty committed to getting the $1,200 out the door.”
“What we're worried about is the quality. Our concern is that so many of those people, because there is no availability of the quality spaces . . . are having to take their second, third or fourth choice, where they can't really be sure that a quality experience is being offered to their children and therefore they're worrying.”
“We have to rebuild our party from the bottom up.”
“It's taken us 16 years, but we got there. It feels very, very fabulous,”
“It was 200 Eeyores in the room, going 'No one cares. No one listens. What are we going to do?' ”
“We feel that even though these are alarming in terms of an increase. I think the researchers believe it's an epidemic of reporting, and that's a good thing.”
“I think we need to see what the breakdown is, ... Have people backed off a bit from reporting [sexual assault] -- that would be a bad thing -- or is it that [some of] the abusers out there have been identified and dealt with?”