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Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.
-Rich Lowry
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Parents Are The Most Likely To Be

Rich Lowry
Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.
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We must realize that violence is not confined to physical violence. fear is violence, caste discrimination is violence, exploitation of others, however subtle, is violence, segregation is violence, thinking ill of others and condemning others are violence. in order to reduce individual acts of physical violence, we must work to eliminate violence at all levels, mental, verbal, personal, and social, including violence to animals, plants, and all other forms of life.
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