pro familia (Germany)

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pro familia German Society for Family Planning, Sex Education and Sexual Counseling e. V.
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legal form e. V.
founding December 23, 1952 in Kassel
Seat Frankfurt am Main
motto For self-determined sexuality
main emphasis Medical, psychological and social advice on relationships and sexuality for women and men , girls and boys
people Daphne Hahn (Chair), Uwe Saulheimer-Eppelmann, Albrecht Gerlach, Christiane Howe, Michael Schmidt
Members 5000
Website profamilia.de

pro familia German Society for Family Planning, Sex Education and Sexual Counseling e. V. Bundesverband is a Germany-wide association of advice centers. Its offer is aimed primarily at young people , parents and schools. Pro Familia also offers advice to other interested parties.

The federal association, which is divided into regional associations, has around 4,000 members. It maintains more than 180 advice centers in Germany with around 1,600 employees. Medical, psychological, psychosocial and family law advice is offered, among other things, on sexuality , partnership , separation and divorce , conception regulation and contraception , unfulfilled desire to have children , pregnancy , childbirth and abortion .

The organization is a founding member of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and a member of the German Parity Welfare Association . The federal association is financed through donations and membership fees. He is also financially supported by the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth .

Club goals, advice and medical offers

The association advocates sexual and reproductive rights and advocates the principle that every person can freely decide whether or not to have children, which includes the right to a legal abortion without any indication.

One focus of the work program is the special promotion and support of disadvantaged groups in the population.

The association offers sex education events for school classes and youth groups. Many counseling centers offer consultation hours for young people and there is also the option of online counseling . Pro Familia provides extensive information online and with brochures on contraception and sexuality.

The association is committed to free access to contraceptives . The association also campaigned for the morning- after pill to be free of prescription ; Until 2015, Germany was one of the few countries in the European Union where a doctor's visit was still compulsory. For Pro Familia, avoiding teenage pregnancies is a challenge for sex education and sex education and a social responsibility. Pro Familia demands the right to a legal abortion without indication. The association thus represents positions on sexual ethical goals and ideas that are criticized by church and other organizations.

The association operates counseling centers for family planning and pregnancy nationwide; In Bremen , Mainz , Rüsselsheim am Main , Kassel , Gießen and Saarbrücken , the “profamilia centers” are connected to the advice centers. In some of these, outpatient sterilization of men and legal abortions can be carried out, among other things ; Medical offers are also available in cooperating family planning centers in Berlin and Hamburg.

history

Pro Familia were in charge:

The association was founded on December 23, 1952 as the "German Society for Marriage and Family" in Kassel. The aim was to create a non-profit , non-governmental and non-denominational professional association for questions of sexuality and family planning.

The foundation went back, among other things, to preparatory work by Margaret Sanger , an activist of the movement for birth control , which founded the American Birth Control League in 1921 , from which the US organization Planned Parenthood in 1942 and the (German) Pro Familia and (international ) IPPF emerged.

The first and longstanding chairman was the Hamburg social hygienist Hans Harmsen . Margaret Sanger and Anne-Marie Durand-Wever were co-founders , the latter became vice chairman. In 1984 Harmsen resigned from the office of honorary president because of criticism of the positions he had expressed during the Nazi era . In 1963 Pro Familia was accepted into the German Parity Welfare Association.

By promoting the model project of the Federal Government "Additional measures to reform the § 218 " was the offer be extended to 26 counseling centers, in addition to expert advice and consultation of interested parties has now been enhanced sex education youth work done. In the years from 1983 onwards, AIDS prevention became a further focus.

After German reunification , the regional associations of the organization "EHE and FAMILY in the GDR" in the new federal states joined Pro Familia in 1991, so that their activities could be continued without the support of the federal government. In 1993 the name was last changed to "German Society for Family Planning, Sexual Education and Sexual Advice". V. "

Since around 2000 the association has also been involved in education about artificial insemination and pre-implantation diagnostics .

Criticism of the Hessian State Audit Office 2004

In 2004, the Hessian Court of Auditors recommended that the public funding for Pro Familia be canceled and that the association's approval as a counseling center for pregnancy conflicts be withdrawn, as it also carries out abortions in three Hessian institutes and therefore the independence of the counseling is not guaranteed. The club rejected the allegation.

2013 Pedophilia Controversy

In 2013, the Tagesspiegel researched that from 1980 to 1998 several articles by psychologists and sociologists had appeared in pro familia magazin who pleaded for sexual contact with children under certain conditions for impunity, including a text by Norbert Lammertz , then a board member at Pro Familia Bonn . The Tagesspiegel spoke of a "pedophilia problem" similar to that of B90 / GRÜNE . Members of the Humane Sexualität working group such as the sociologist Rüdiger Lautmann ( Die Lust am Kind ) published in pro familia magazine in 2013 . Lautmann later revoked his writings as "naive and inadequate". Pro Familia commented in 2013 that there were undoubtedly “completely unacceptable and trivializing” positions that “ignored the victims' injuries”. Subsequent comments suggest that the removal of taboos on sexuality has led to naivety and a lack of caution.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Rost: Pro Familia helps out. Sex education as a way of life , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung from July 25, 2009
  2. ↑ Roadside assistance after 6 . pro-Familia website, accessed June 23, 2017 (PDF). Breakdown assistance after 6 . ( Memento from May 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Version before the abolition of the requirement for medical advice.
  3. ↑ pro familia federal association: Pro familia research project: Pregnancy and termination of pregnancy in underage women . Lecture from February 23, 2007, website of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung , (PDF; 53 kB).
  4. ↑ "What we offer you" on the association's website, accessed on April 1, 2016.
  5. ↑ Michael Altmann: 60 years for self-determined sexuality . In: pro familia magazin 1/2012, p. 4f, online on the association's website, accessed on October 15, 2013.
  6. ↑ Sabine Schleiermacher: Racial Hygiene and Deliberate Parenthood ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Reproductive and Genetic Engineering: Journal of International Feminist Analysis 3 (1990), Issue 3, Volume 3 (PDF; 138 kB). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.finrrage.org
  7. ↑ Sex Education and Family Information, No. 6, 1984
  8. ↑ Easily passed over. - When it comes to expanding pregnancy counseling in the former GDR, Bonn prefers conservative organizations . Der Spiegel 17/1991 of April 22, 1991, p. 81.
  9. ^ Pregnancy conflict counseling: Court of Auditors criticizes . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed December 23, 2019]).
  10. ^ "Pro Familia" calls the Court of Audit allegations unfounded - Rhein-Main - FAZ . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed December 24, 2019]).
  11. ↑ Cordula Eubel, Sarah Kramer: Pedophilia problem also at the Pro Familia association . Der Tagesspiegel , October 8, 2013
  12. ↑ Sarah Kramer: Pedophilia allegations to Pro Familia. Questionable network. Der Tagesspiegel , October 9, 2013
  13. ↑ Cordula Eubel, Sarah Kramer: Debate about pedophilia. Pro Familia's problems with distance. In: Der Tagesspiegel , October 8, 2013
  14. ↑ Nina Apin: Pedophile positions at pro familia. "Needs" and "moral panic" . The daily newspaper (taz), October 10, 2012.
  15. ^ Rüdiger Lautmann: Rüdiger Lautmann (undated): Sexuality - sociocultural and The scenario of modeled pedophilia . On www.lautmann.de; both pages accessed on June 23, 2017.
  16. ↑ On the discussion of pedophilia in earlier pro familia magazines. (PDF, 74 kB) Press release from pro Familia, October 8, 2013, accessed on January 20, 2019 . Declaration by the federal chairman on the current allegations against pro familia. (PDF, 74 kB) In: profamilia.de. October 11, 2013, accessed January 20, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Parvin Sadigh: Not only the Greens played down pedophilia. In: The time . December 17, 2013, accessed January 20, 2019 .
  18. ^ Anja Fähnle: Association Pro Familia: Questionable Dealing with Pedophilia. In: Deutsche Welle . October 11, 2013, accessed January 20, 2019 .