ABSTRACT
During the 1980s, when sexual abuse of children and adolescents became a very topic with the media and experts in the social fields, it moved from the shadow of taboos into the public eye, becoming its own field of research. Since the mid-1980s, as the topic of “sexual abuse” gradually shed its taboos, SOS Children’s Villages Germany also took a more intense look at this issue. All advisory facilities as well as the residential facilities, such as the SOS Children’s Villages themselves and the youth facilities, are repeatedly confronted with sexually abused children and adolescents. All SOS Children’s Villages have sexually abused children and adolescents in residence. The sexual abuse of boys remains a highly tabooed issue even in the SOS Children’s Villages. It appears that the social situation is reflected in the facilities. The problem of sexual abuse is viewed by the SOS Children’s Village Sauerland as an important current and professionally challenging issue.
