Partly because teenagers are still half children, and many children are just intrinsically cruel.

Children can be harsh judges when it comes to their parents, disinclined to grant clemency.

I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents, out-learn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

All parents damage their children. This was their life together. Neglect. Violence. Silence.

Why do they do these things to children, Pan? Do they all hate children so much, that they want to tear them apart like this? Why do they do it?

Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannise their teachers.

Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.

I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.

"I never got along with my dad. Kids used to come up to me and say, "My dad can beat up your dad." I'd say Yeah? When?"

Parents are the mystified criminals, blinking in the docks, making it all the worse for themselves with every word they utter.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers.