Crisis center/emergency shelter, not sure which is the right word. We have those here in Norway. They are shelters for women who have been or are battered/abused. There is one for women in every township in Norway.
News article says, in Norwegian, "women are abusing crisis centers". Two men, in the article, tell their story of how everything was normal in their lives, one man is telling about an evening he sat and watched TV, after a hard days work. When the door bell chimes. To his surprise, there were two police officers standing there. They couldn't tell him why they were there, they had just been ordered to bring him to the police station. The man was put in jail without any explanation, without being told what had happened or why. Out of the blue, police, jail. And no explanation as to what went on.
"- You hear time and time again that you are innocent until proven guilty, but here I was guilty until I could prove my innocence".
The man has a higher education (not in the female sense, but as in, higher education than average) and he has a well paying job (yes, we are all thinking it), and he thinks it's terrifying that you can just be put in jail like he was, without any reason, without any chance to defend himself.
"It was horrible, you get such a Kafka-feeling", he says.
"And it's horrible that people can throw false accusations at you, and get away with it, unpunished", he goes on to say.
He also goes on to explain that he is now a tad bit wiser. When ever he reads about a woman accusing a man of assault and battery of her, he's always thinking, "what would she gain from lying?".
Source (Norwegian text): https://www.tv2.no/a/3064072/
Google translated to English: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tv2.no%2Fa%2F3064072%2F
Off track, a bit, but regarding crisis centers for men, in Norway (also Norwegian text - google to English does an OK job): http://www.krisesenter.org/docs/krisesenter_for_menn.htm
Yes, women can bring children, plural, to these crisis centers. Men, in the few crisis centers that are for men, can not.
But, like I said, I am weering off track now.
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