German Child Protection Association
| German Child Protection Association (DKSB) |
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| legal form | non-profit registered association |
| founding | 1953 |
| Seat | Berlin ( ⊙ ) |
| purpose | Child protection and rights |
| Chair | Heinz Hilgers |
| sales | 2,211,430 euros (2018) |
| Volunteers | 15,000 (2019) |
| Members | 50,000 (2019) |
| Website | www.dksb.de |
The German Child Protection Association (DKSB) is a nationwide represented, non-profit association and a lobby for children. It was founded in 1953 and is an umbrella organization of regional associations which currently represent around 430 local associations. According to the statutes, it campaigns for child protection , children's rights and the improvement of the living conditions of children and their families. According to its own statements, the association is not bound by any party politics or denomination and wants to track down any grievances, urge politicians and administration to act and bring about a more child-friendly society through its own initiatives. Heinz Hilgers has been president of the association since 1993 .
Structures and subject areas
Structures
The association has 50,000 individual members, making it the child protection association with the largest number of members in Germany. It consists of the federal association, 16 regional and 430 local and district associations. At the local level, practical work with children, young people and parents is a special focus.
The DKSB is a member of the German Parity Welfare Association , which is part of the free welfare organization in Germany. In this capacity he works with youth welfare offices and is commissioned by them on a case-by-case basis to send educational assistance to families that are looked after by the office.
The range of offers includes, among others
- Advice offers
- early help
- Parent course offers Strong parents - strong children
- supervised handling
- school offers
- Recreational facilities
The main focus of work of the regional associations is to support the local associations in their practical child protection work through the development of concepts or the provision of advanced training offers.
The federal association with its operational unit of the federal management takes over above all the
- Public relations and lobbying
- Coordination and implementation of effective media campaigns
- Acquisition and support of supporters and sponsors
The federal association is the owner of "DKSB Marketing GmbH" based in Berlin.
Subject areas
The association expresses itself on many topics that affect children and their living conditions and well-being. However, three subject areas form a special focus:
- The fight against child poverty in Germany
- The prevention of children from violence and neglect
- The full realization of children's rights - the introduction of children's rights into the Basic Law
Against the background of these objectives, the association formulates social and family policy demands, initiates campaigns and develops practical measures for child protection in Germany.
Telephone for children and teenagers and telephone for parents
Children, adolescents and parents can obtain free and anonymous advice on worries and problems via the child and youth telephone or parents' telephone. The telephone number for parents and the telephone for children and young people are maintained by the association Nummer gegen Kummer eV . The association number against Kummer e. V. and its members have set up the child and youth telephone as well as the parent telephone as a nationwide network in order to guarantee advice to children, young people and parents. The association was founded in 1980 and has been an umbrella organization as a registered non-profit association based in Wuppertal since 1994. He is a member of the German Child Protection Association and Child Help Line International. 43 of the total of 46 parents' telephones and 79 of the total of 95 children's and youth telephones are operated by the DKSB.
history
The predecessor of the Kinderschutzbund was the Association for the Protection of Children from Abuse and Abuse (1898–1933).
After the Second World War there was no association child protection work in Germany. In 1953, the Hamburg doctor Fritz Lejeune founded the German Child Protection Association, which, however, initially had little significance in terms of social education and social policy. For many years, he joined the "Protecting our children from engine criminals and other threats", for longer sentences for child abuse and called preventive detention or alternatively the introduction to labor camps or transfer to remote islands for "sex offender".
Dieter Kreft sees this behavior more as a relief for the sexual fears of adults than as protection for abused children. From 1975 the association succeeded in breaking away from drive-repressive and counter-aggressive concepts with the German Charter for Children and in 1977 with the Hamburg Declaration .
List of presidents
- 1953–1964: Fritz Lejeune , pediatrician
- April to October 1964: Jörg Fromberg
- 1965–1969: Hans von Nordheim, President of the District Court
- 1969–1972: Walter Becker, Senior Government Director
- 1972–1975: Eberhard Schomburg , educational scientist
- 1975–1981: Kurt Nitsch , pediatrician
- 1981–1993: Walter Bärsch , educational scientist and psychologist
- 1993-today: Heinz Hilgers , politician (SPD)
Criticism of smoking in films
The German Child Protection Association regularly expresses itself on health policy issues that affect children and young people. In January 2018, for example, he reaffirmed the public criticism of the German Cancer Aid Foundation of the smoking scenes in films shown on German television. The organization declared its solidarity with the cancer aid, which sharply criticized the state film funding in Germany. The chairman of the board, Gerd Nettekoven , urged state and institutional film funding to stop promoting “films that are smoked”. Films with smoke scenes are an advertisement for the cigarette.
The Child Protection Association also appealed to business and the media to be aware of their responsibility. “The more naturally smoking is integrated into everyday life, the more children and young people internalize this image of reality. And of course, the more they run the risk of taking up a cigarette themselves, ”warned an association spokeswoman in Berlin.
Web links
- Website of the child protection association
- Günther Deegener (2016): Evaluation of pedophile demands in the German Child Protection Association (archived version on Docplayer).
Individual evidence
- ↑ German Child Protection Association - Imprint. (No longer available online.) In: www.dksb.de. Archived from the original on January 16, 2017 ; accessed on January 16, 2017 .
- ↑ https://www.dksb.de/de/unsere-arbeit/kooperationspartner/lösungen/
- ↑ Dieter Kreft: Dictionary of social work: tasks, fields of practice, terms and methods of social work and social pedagogy. Juventa, 2005, ISBN 3779920603 , ISBN 9783779920601 , p. 510.
- ↑ Interview with Gerd Nettekoven from December 6, 2017 (accessed January 5, 2018).