Abuse is a significant term. Often, abuse is embedded in an environment of assumptions, making it difficult to identify as a singular event and thus hard to articulate. Sexual abuse is not an isolatable, sharply and precisely definable event; rather, it seamlessly integrates into the everyday interactions of superiority and power over children – this is the conclusion of the authors. Drawing from their years of counseling experience, they approach the question of how abuse is experienced: by the victims, by the perpetrators, and in the public sphere. The call of this book is to work towards a shared discernment that would be crucial regarding abuse, yet is so challenging to achieve. "Sexual abuse is just one example of how commonplace it still is in our society to manipulate other people who are in some way dependent for one's own purposes." - Mathias Wais.