Dänemark: Geprügelte Männer drängen sich in überfüllten Männerhäusern

Three shelters for all of Denmark "is largely insufficient and the needs are enormous," laments Thorkild Vestergaard-Hansen, who heads Mandecentret.

"It's crazy that the men's crisis centres don't receive the same amount of subsidies as the 40 or so women's shelters," he says.

Winnie Bendtson, a counsellor at the centre, notes that the men are not usually physically beaten.

"But it does happen that women throw anything within range at their husbands, even threaten them with knives," she says.

The men who seek help are often the victims of "very domineering" women, and some are "forbidden from using their own money, seeing their family and friends, forced to come home at a set time and locked out if they're a few minutes late."

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