Family father fights against inclination: a way to control and hope

Family father fights against inclination: a way to control and hope

Schleswig, Deutschland - in Schleswig-Holstein, Pascal Schumann, a family man with pedophile tendencies, has completed therapy by the prevention network "becoming not a perpetrator". This network has been committed to treating people with such inclinations for 15 years. Pascal Schumann has a non-exclusive hebephilie, which means that he is interested in both women and girls of pre-Pubertal age.

his problematic tendency developed for the first time in his youth over the Internet. At the crucial moment, his wife pushed him for therapy at the end of 2023 after having misused a child's garment. Despite his inclinations, Pascal excludes living out on his own children. He expresses the desire that such incidents do not happen to him again and hopes to be able to say in the coming years that he has his tendency under control and continues to be a happy father.

prevention network and therapy approach

The goal of the prevention network "becoming not a perpetrator" is the specific victim protection and the prevention of attacks. The psychologist Nora Hoffmann currently looks after 17 men who suffer from pedophile tendencies. Your therapy includes behavioral control, risk factor minimization and the establishment of protective factors. Sport is used as an important tool to strengthen self -control. Schumann has developed a motivating sentence: "I can do it."

The inclinations that treated people feel can not be fully explained, and there is currently no known method to change them willingly. Around 1,000 people registered in the 15 years of existence, 309 men took part in an initial interview, and 93 treatments were successfully completed. Many men often hesitate to start therapy, often due to shame or due to ongoing criminal proceedings.

The prevention network "Becoming not a perpetrator" is funded as part of a model project according to § 65d SGB V, supported by the top association of statutory health insurance companies (GKV-SV). Public relations work is also funded by the Federal Ministry of Justice. In Munich, Regensburg and Saxony-Anhalt, specific offers were created, which are supported by both the Bavarian State Ministry of the Justice and the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Health and Equality of Saxony and Equality, such as no-taeter-werden.de reported.