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The '''men's rights movement''' (MRM) is a [[human rights movement]], part of the larger [[men's movement]], focused specifically on issues of perceived [[discrimination]] and inequalities faced by men.  It branched off from the [[men's liberation]] movement in the early 1970s, splitting into opposing [[pro-feminism|pro-]] and [[antifeminism|antifeminist]] groups.  The movement is made up of a variety of formal and informal groups that differ in their approaches and issues.   
The '''men's rights movement''' (MRM) is a [[human rights movement]], part of the larger [[men's movement]], focused specifically on issues of perceived [[discrimination]] and inequalities faced by men.  It branched off from the [[men's liberation]] movement in the early 1970s, splitting into opposing [[pro-feminism|pro-]] and [[antifeminism|antifeminist]] groups.  The movement is made up of a variety of formal and informal groups that differ in their approaches and issues.   


The MRM has been involved in a variety of issues related to law (including [[family law]], parenting, reproduction and domestic violence), government services (including edication, military service and [[social safety net]]s) health and [[female privilege]].  
The MRM has been involved in a variety of issues related to law (including [[family law]], parenting, reproduction and domestic violence), government services (including education, military service and [[social safety net]]s) health and [[female privilege]].  


==History==
==History==
[[File:SIF-Picture.jpg|thumb|250px|Protest in New Delhi for men's rights organised by the [[Save Indian Family Foundation]]]]
The men's rights movement emerged from the [[men's liberation]] movement which appeared in the first half of the 1970s when some thinkers began to study feminist ideas and politics.<ref name="Messner 1">{{cite journal |last= Messner |first= Michael A. |authorlink= Michael Messner |year= 1998 |title= The Limits of the "Male Sex Role": An Analysis of the Men's Liberation and Men's Rights Movement's Discourse |journal= [[Gender & Society]] |volume= 12 |issue= 3 |pages= 255&ndash;276 |publisher= |doi= 10.1177/0891243298012003002 |pmid= |pmc= |url= |accessdate= }}</ref>{{sfn|Newton|2004|p = [http://books.google.ca/books?id=bXZkmNTSQUAC&pg=PA190 190-200]}} The leaders of the men's liberation movement acknowledged men's institutional power while critically examining the costs of traditional masculinity.<ref name="Messner 1"/> In the late 1970s, the men's liberation movement split into two separate strands with opposing views: The [[Pro-feminism|pro-feminist men's movement]] and an [[Antifeminism|anti-feminist]] men's rights movement.<ref name="Messner 1"/> Men's rights activists have since then rejected feminist principles and focused on disadvantages and oppression of men that they have identified.<ref name="Messner 1"/>{{sfn|Newton|2004|p = [http://books.google.ca/books?id=bXZkmNTSQUAC&pg=PA190 190-200]}} In the 1980s and 90s, men's rights activists opposed societal changes sought by feminists and defended the traditional gender order in the family, schools and the workplace.<ref>{{cite journal |last1= Lingard |first1= Bob |last2= Mills |first2= Martin |last3= Weaver-Hightower |first3= Marcus B| year= 2012 |title= Interrogating recuperative masculinity politics in schooling |journal= International Journal of Inclusive Education |volume= 16 |issue= 4 |pages= 407&ndash;421 |publisher= |doi= 10.1080/13603116.2011.555095 |url= |accessdate= |quote= The concept of recuperative masculinity politics was developed by Lingard and Douglas (1999) to refer to both mythopoetic (Biddulph 1995, 2010; Bly 1990) and men’s rights politics (Farrell 1993). Both of these rejected the move to a more equal gender order and more equal gender regimes in all of the major institutions of society (e.g. the family, schools, universities, workplaces) sought by feminists and most evident in the political and policy impacts in the 1980s and 1990s from second-wave feminism of the 1970s. 'Recuperative' was used to specifically indicate the ways in which these politics reinforced, defended and wished to recoup the patriarchal gender order and institutional gender regimes.}}</ref> Men's rights activists adopted the feminist rhetoric of "rights" and "equality" in their discourse, framing custody issues, for instance, as a matter of basic civil rights.<ref name="RH Williams"/><ref name="Messner 1"/><ref>{{cite book |last1= Williams |first1= Gwyneth I. |authorlink1= |last2= Williams |first2= Rhys H |authorlink2= |editor1-first= Joel |editor1-last= Best |editor1-link= |others= |title= Images of Issues: Typifying Contemporary Social Problems |edition= 2nd |url= |year= 1995 |publisher= A. De Gruyter |location= New York |isbn= 978-0-202-30539-4 |page= |pages= 201&ndash;202 |chapter= "All We Want Is Equality": Rhetorical Framing in the Fathers' Rights Movement |chapterurl= http://books.google.com/books?id=larpu0lKQlQC&pg=PA201 |quote= }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1= Coltrane |first1= Coltrane |last2= Hickman |first2= Neal |year= 1992 |title= The Rhetoric of Rights and Needs: Moral Discourse in the Reform of Child Custody and Child Support Laws |journal= Social Problems |volume= 39 |issue= 4 |pages= 400&ndash;420 |publisher= University of California Press |doi= 10.2307/3097018 |url= |accessdate=}}</ref> The plea for "equal rights for fathers" is frequently accompanied by a rhetoric of children's "needs" which helps deflect criticism that it is motivated by self-interest.<ref name="RH Williams"/>
The men's rights movement emerged from the [[men's liberation]] movement which appeared in the first half of the 1970s when some thinkers began to study feminist ideas and politics.<ref name="Messner 1">{{cite journal |last= Messner |first= Michael A. |authorlink= Michael Messner |year= 1998 |title= The Limits of the "Male Sex Role": An Analysis of the Men's Liberation and Men's Rights Movement's Discourse |journal= [[Gender & Society]] |volume= 12 |issue= 3 |pages= 255&ndash;276 |publisher= |doi= 10.1177/0891243298012003002 |pmid= |pmc= |url= |accessdate= }}</ref>{{sfn|Newton|2004|p = [http://books.google.ca/books?id=bXZkmNTSQUAC&pg=PA190 190-200]}} The leaders of the men's liberation movement acknowledged men's institutional power while critically examining the costs of traditional masculinity.<ref name="Messner 1"/> In the late 1970s, the men's liberation movement split into two separate strands with opposing views: The [[Pro-feminism|pro-feminist men's movement]] and an [[Antifeminism|anti-feminist]] men's rights movement.<ref name="Messner 1"/> Men's rights activists have since then rejected feminist principles and focused on disadvantages and oppression of men that they have identified.<ref name="Messner 1"/>{{sfn|Newton|2004|p = [http://books.google.ca/books?id=bXZkmNTSQUAC&pg=PA190 190-200]}} In the 1980s and 90s, men's rights activists opposed societal changes sought by feminists and defended the traditional gender order in the family, schools and the workplace.<ref>{{cite journal |last1= Lingard |first1= Bob |last2= Mills |first2= Martin |last3= Weaver-Hightower |first3= Marcus B| year= 2012 |title= Interrogating recuperative masculinity politics in schooling |journal= International Journal of Inclusive Education |volume= 16 |issue= 4 |pages= 407&ndash;421 |publisher= |doi= 10.1080/13603116.2011.555095 |url= |accessdate= |quote= The concept of recuperative masculinity politics was developed by Lingard and Douglas (1999) to refer to both mythopoetic (Biddulph 1995, 2010; Bly 1990) and men’s rights politics (Farrell 1993). Both of these rejected the move to a more equal gender order and more equal gender regimes in all of the major institutions of society (e.g. the family, schools, universities, workplaces) sought by feminists and most evident in the political and policy impacts in the 1980s and 1990s from second-wave feminism of the 1970s. 'Recuperative' was used to specifically indicate the ways in which these politics reinforced, defended and wished to recoup the patriarchal gender order and institutional gender regimes.}}</ref> Men's rights activists adopted the feminist rhetoric of "rights" and "equality" in their discourse, framing custody issues, for instance, as a matter of basic civil rights.<ref name="RH Williams"/><ref name="Messner 1"/><ref>{{cite book |last1= Williams |first1= Gwyneth I. |authorlink1= |last2= Williams |first2= Rhys H |authorlink2= |editor1-first= Joel |editor1-last= Best |editor1-link= |others= |title= Images of Issues: Typifying Contemporary Social Problems |edition= 2nd |url= |year= 1995 |publisher= A. De Gruyter |location= New York |isbn= 978-0-202-30539-4 |page= |pages= 201&ndash;202 |chapter= "All We Want Is Equality": Rhetorical Framing in the Fathers' Rights Movement |chapterurl= http://books.google.com/books?id=larpu0lKQlQC&pg=PA201 |quote= }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1= Coltrane |first1= Coltrane |last2= Hickman |first2= Neal |year= 1992 |title= The Rhetoric of Rights and Needs: Moral Discourse in the Reform of Child Custody and Child Support Laws |journal= Social Problems |volume= 39 |issue= 4 |pages= 400&ndash;420 |publisher= University of California Press |doi= 10.2307/3097018 |url= |accessdate=}}</ref> The plea for "equal rights for fathers" is frequently accompanied by a rhetoric of children's "needs" which helps deflect criticism that it is motivated by self-interest.<ref name="RH Williams"/>


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One of the first major men's rights organizations was the Coalition of American Divorce Reform Elements, founded by [[Richard Doyle (rights advocate)|Richard Doyle]] in 1971, from which the Men's Rights Association spun off in 1973.{{sfn|Newton|2004|p = [http://books.google.ca/books?id=bXZkmNTSQUAC&pg=PA190 190-200]}}<ref>{{cite book |last1= Lee |first1= Calinda N. |authorlink1= |last2= |first2= |authorlink2= |editor1-first= Bret E. |editor1-last= Carroll |editor1-link= |others= |title= American Masculinities: A Historical Encyclopedia |url= |volume= One |year= 2003 |publisher= SAGE Publications |location= Thousand Oaks, Calif. |isbn= 978-0-7619-2540-8 |page= 167 |chapter= Fathers' Rights |chapterurl= http://books.google.com/books?id=E0R9lLtv8i8C&pg=PA167}}</ref> Free Men Inc. was founded in 1977 in [[Columbia, Maryland]], spawning several chapters over the following years, which eventually merged to form the National Coalition of Free Men{{sfn|Ashe|2007|p = [http://books.google.com/books?id=nXDbiPA9IuQC&pg=PA63#v=onepage&q&f=false 63]}} (now known as the [[National Coalition for Men]]). Men's Rights, Inc. was also formed in 1977.<ref name="Chafetz">{{cite book|last= Chafetz |first= Janet Saltzman |title= Handbook of the sociology of gender | year = 2006 | publisher = [[Springer Science+Business Media]] |location= New York |isbn= 0-387-32460-7 |page= 168 }}</ref>{{sfn|Ashe|2007|p = [http://books.google.com/books?id=nXDbiPA9IuQC&pg=PA63#v=onepage&q&f=false 63]}} [[Save Indian Family Foundation]] (SIFF) was founded in 2005 and in 2011 claimed to have approximately 4,000 registered members.<ref name=Kumar>{{cite conference | last = Kumar | first = A | url = http://www.malestudies.org/pdf/kumar.pdf | format = pdf | title = Men’s Movement in India: Story of Save Indian Family Movement | conference = Second Annual Male Studies Conference | location = New York | publisher = Foundation for Male Studies }}</ref>
One of the first major men's rights organizations was the Coalition of American Divorce Reform Elements, founded by [[Richard Doyle (rights advocate)|Richard Doyle]] in 1971, from which the Men's Rights Association spun off in 1973.{{sfn|Newton|2004|p = [http://books.google.ca/books?id=bXZkmNTSQUAC&pg=PA190 190-200]}}<ref>{{cite book |last1= Lee |first1= Calinda N. |authorlink1= |last2= |first2= |authorlink2= |editor1-first= Bret E. |editor1-last= Carroll |editor1-link= |others= |title= American Masculinities: A Historical Encyclopedia |url= |volume= One |year= 2003 |publisher= SAGE Publications |location= Thousand Oaks, Calif. |isbn= 978-0-7619-2540-8 |page= 167 |chapter= Fathers' Rights |chapterurl= http://books.google.com/books?id=E0R9lLtv8i8C&pg=PA167}}</ref> Free Men Inc. was founded in 1977 in [[Columbia, Maryland]], spawning several chapters over the following years, which eventually merged to form the National Coalition of Free Men{{sfn|Ashe|2007|p = [http://books.google.com/books?id=nXDbiPA9IuQC&pg=PA63#v=onepage&q&f=false 63]}} (now known as the [[National Coalition for Men]]). Men's Rights, Inc. was also formed in 1977.<ref name="Chafetz">{{cite book|last= Chafetz |first= Janet Saltzman |title= Handbook of the sociology of gender | year = 2006 | publisher = [[Springer Science+Business Media]] |location= New York |isbn= 0-387-32460-7 |page= 168 }}</ref>{{sfn|Ashe|2007|p = [http://books.google.com/books?id=nXDbiPA9IuQC&pg=PA63#v=onepage&q&f=false 63]}} [[Save Indian Family Foundation]] (SIFF) was founded in 2005 and in 2011 claimed to have approximately 4,000 registered members.<ref name=Kumar>{{cite conference | last = Kumar | first = A | url = http://www.malestudies.org/pdf/kumar.pdf | format = pdf | title = Men’s Movement in India: Story of Save Indian Family Movement | conference = Second Annual Male Studies Conference | location = New York | publisher = Foundation for Male Studies }}</ref>


===Relation to feminism===
===Relation to feminism===
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Men's rights activists see men as an oppressed group<ref name="maddison"/><ref>{{cite book |last1= Pease |first1= Bob |authorlink1= |last2= Camilleri |first2= Peter |authorlink2= |editor1-first= |editor1-last= |editor1-link= |others= |title= Working with men in the human services |url= |edition= |year= 2001 |publisher= [[Allen & Unwin]] |location= Crow's Nest, N.S.W. |page= |pages= 3&ndash;4 | isbn= 978-1-86508-480-0 |chapter= Feminism, masculinity and the human services |chapterurl= http://books.google.com/books?id=aGFYw3JmRmEC&pg=PA3}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1= Kahn |first1= Jack S |authorlink1= |last2= |first2= |authorlink2= |editor1-first= |editor1-last= |editor1-link= |others= |title= An introduction to masculinities |url= http://books.google.com/books?id=AR17bxoJ_U8C&pg=PA202 |edition= |year= 2009 |publisher= Wiley-Blackwell |location= Chichester, U.K. |isbn= 978-1-4051-8179-2 |page= 202 |pages= |chapter= |chapterurl= }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1= Williams |first1= Gwyneth I |authorlink1= |last2= |first2= |authorlink2= |editor1-first= Rhys H. |editor1-last= Williams |editor1-link= |others= |title= Promise Keepers and the New Masculinity: Private Lives and Public Morality |url= |edition= |year= 2001 |publisher= Lexington Books |location= Lanham |page= 107 |pages= |isbn= 978-0-7391-0230-5 |chapter= Masculinity in Context: An Epilogue |chapterurl= http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=CsHmN5K29iAC&oi=fnd&pg=PA107}}</ref> and believe that society and state have been "feminized" by the women's movement.<ref name="maddison"/> [[Warren Farrell]] and [[Herb Goldberg]], for instance, believe that all men are disadvantaged, discriminated against and oppressed and argue that power is an illusion for most men since women are the actual bearers of power.<ref name="maddison"/> Men's rights groups generally reject the notion that feminism is interested in men's problems{{sfn|Flood|2007| p = [http://books.google.com/books?id=jh7y6ELc90YC&pg=PA430#v=onepage&q&f=false 430-433]}} and men's rights activists have viewed the women's movement as a plot to conceal discrimination against men.<ref name="Messner 1"/><ref>{{cite book |last1= Whitaker |first1= Stephen |authorlink1= |last2= |first2= |authorlink2= |editor1-first= Dana |editor1-last= Vannoy |editor1-link= |others= |title= Gender Mosaics: Social Perspectives |url= |year= 2001 |publisher= Oxford University Press |location= New York |isbn= 978-0-19-532998-8 |page= |pages= 343&ndash;351 |chapter= Gender Politics in Men's Movements |chapterurl= http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~spwhita/Gender%20Politics%20in%20Mens%20Movements.pdf }}</ref>{{sfn|Flood|2007|p = [http://www.xyonline.net/sites/default/files/Flood,%20Men's%20Movements,%20IEMM%202007.pdf 418–422] }}
Men's rights activists see men as an oppressed group<ref name="maddison"/><ref>{{cite book |last1= Pease |first1= Bob |authorlink1= |last2= Camilleri |first2= Peter |authorlink2= |editor1-first= |editor1-last= |editor1-link= |others= |title= Working with men in the human services |url= |edition= |year= 2001 |publisher= [[Allen & Unwin]] |location= Crow's Nest, N.S.W. |page= |pages= 3&ndash;4 | isbn= 978-1-86508-480-0 |chapter= Feminism, masculinity and the human services |chapterurl= http://books.google.com/books?id=aGFYw3JmRmEC&pg=PA3}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1= Kahn |first1= Jack S |authorlink1= |last2= |first2= |authorlink2= |editor1-first= |editor1-last= |editor1-link= |others= |title= An introduction to masculinities |url= http://books.google.com/books?id=AR17bxoJ_U8C&pg=PA202 |edition= |year= 2009 |publisher= Wiley-Blackwell |location= Chichester, U.K. |isbn= 978-1-4051-8179-2 |page= 202 |pages= |chapter= |chapterurl= }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1= Williams |first1= Gwyneth I |authorlink1= |last2= |first2= |authorlink2= |editor1-first= Rhys H. |editor1-last= Williams |editor1-link= |others= |title= Promise Keepers and the New Masculinity: Private Lives and Public Morality |url= |edition= |year= 2001 |publisher= Lexington Books |location= Lanham |page= 107 |pages= |isbn= 978-0-7391-0230-5 |chapter= Masculinity in Context: An Epilogue |chapterurl= http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=CsHmN5K29iAC&oi=fnd&pg=PA107}}</ref> and believe that society and state have been "feminized" by the women's movement.<ref name="maddison"/> [[Warren Farrell]] and [[Herb Goldberg]], for instance, believe that all men are disadvantaged, discriminated against and oppressed and argue that power is an illusion for most men since women are the actual bearers of power.<ref name="maddison"/> Men's rights groups generally reject the notion that feminism is interested in men's problems{{sfn|Flood|2007| p = [http://books.google.com/books?id=jh7y6ELc90YC&pg=PA430#v=onepage&q&f=false 430-433]}} and men's rights activists have viewed the women's movement as a plot to conceal discrimination against men.<ref name="Messner 1"/><ref>{{cite book |last1= Whitaker |first1= Stephen |authorlink1= |last2= |first2= |authorlink2= |editor1-first= Dana |editor1-last= Vannoy |editor1-link= |others= |title= Gender Mosaics: Social Perspectives |url= |year= 2001 |publisher= Oxford University Press |location= New York |isbn= 978-0-19-532998-8 |page= |pages= 343&ndash;351 |chapter= Gender Politics in Men's Movements |chapterurl= http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~spwhita/Gender%20Politics%20in%20Mens%20Movements.pdf }}</ref>{{sfn|Flood|2007|p = [http://www.xyonline.net/sites/default/files/Flood,%20Men's%20Movements,%20IEMM%202007.pdf 418–422] }}


===Adoption===
===Adoption===
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===Anti-dowry laws===
===Anti-dowry laws===
Men's rights organizations such as [[Save Indian Family Foundation]] (SIFF) state that men are subject to [[dowry]] harassment when women misuse legislation meant to protect them from [[dowry death]] and [[bride burning]]s.<ref name="Kumar"/>  SIFF is one of the many men's rights organizations in India that focus on the perceived abuse of anti-[[dowry]] laws against men.<ref name=TNN>{{cite news|title=Men demand fair play|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-11-20/chandigarh/28100670_1_law-ministry-men-demand-awareness-programme|accessdate=20 October 2011|newspaper=Times of India|date=20 November 2009}}</ref>  SIFF has stated that they feel that anti-dowry laws have regularly been used in efforts to settle petty disputes in marriage,<ref name=DT>{{cite news|last=Gilani|first=Iftikhar|title=Shoaib Malik controversy to hit Pakistan-India relations|url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010%5C04%5C06%5Cstory_6-4-2010_pg2_6|accessdate=20 October 2011|newspaper=Daily Times|date=6 April 2010}}</ref> and that their helplines receive calls from many men who say that their wives have used false dowry claims to get them jailed.<ref name=TA>{{cite news|last=Dhillon|first=Amrit|title=Men say wives use India's pro-women laws to torment them|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/men-say-wives-use-indias-prowomen-laws-to-torment-them/2007/12/23/1198344884127.html|accessdate=20 October 2011|newspaper=The Age|date=24 December 2007}}</ref>
Men's rights organizations such as [[Save Indian Family Foundation]] (SIFF) state that men are subject to [[dowry]] harassment when women misuse legislation meant to protect them from [[dowry death]] and [[bride burning]]s.<ref name="Kumar"/>  SIFF is one of the many men's rights organizations in India that focus on the perceived abuse of anti-[[dowry]] laws against men.<ref name=TNN>{{cite news|title=Men demand fair play|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-11-20/chandigarh/28100670_1_law-ministry-men-demand-awareness-programme|accessdate=20 October 2011|newspaper=Times of India|date=20 November 2009}}</ref>  SIFF has stated that they feel that anti-dowry laws have regularly been used in efforts to settle petty disputes in marriage,<ref name=DT>{{cite news|last=Gilani|first=Iftikhar|title=Shoaib Malik controversy to hit Pakistan-India relations|url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010%5C04%5C06%5Cstory_6-4-2010_pg2_6|accessdate=20 October 2011|newspaper=Daily Times|date=6 April 2010}}</ref> and that their helplines receive calls from many men who say that their wives have used false dowry claims to get them jailed.<ref name=TA>{{cite news|last=Ramesh|first=Randeep|date=13 December 2007|title=Dowry law making us the victims, says India's men's movement|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/dec/13/india.randeepramesh1|work=The Guardian|publisher=Guardian News and Media Limited|accessdate=5 October 2013}}</ref>


===Child custody===
===Child custody===
[[File:Fathers 4 Justice in Peterborough.jpg|thumb|right|Two protestors from UK-based father's rights group Fathers 4 Justice protesting in Peterborough in 2010.]]
[[Family law]] is an area of deep concern among men's rights groups. These issues vary from state to state and country to country. In India, father's rights have been a concern since 2000.<ref name=Kumar/> Many men feel that they are discriminated against and that they do not have the same contact rights or equitable [[shared parenting]] rights as their ex-spouse.{{sfn |Messner | 1997 |p = [http://books.google.com/books?id=nG8MGcopgWQC&pg=PA41#v=onepage&q&f=false 41-48] }}<ref name=collier>{{cite news | last = Collier | first = R | coauthors = Sheldon S | date = 2006-11-01 | url = http://society.guardian.co.uk/children/story/0,,1935970,00.html | title = Unfamiliar territory: The issue of a father's rights and responsibilities covers more than just the media-highlighted subject of access to his children | location = London | work = [[The Guardian]] | accessdate = 2011-11-24 }}</ref> The United Kingdom and United States were cited, with several other unnamed countries, as affected regions where [[child custody]] issues have become complicated by higher divorce rates, less father-child time, while there has been greater expectations for fatherly involvement in their children's lives. Authors of ''Unfamiliar territory'' write, "The current struggles of the fathers' rights movement can be understood as part of this complex and painful renegotiation of intimate relations against a backdrop of changing lifestyles and expectations."<ref name=collier/> Father's rights activists seek to change the legal climate for men through changes in family law.{{sfn |Messner | 1997 |p = [http://books.google.com/books?id=nG8MGcopgWQC&pg=PA41#v=onepage&q&f=false 41-48] }} See [[Fathers' rights movement by country]] for more information about custody concerns.  
[[Family law]] is an area of deep concern among men's rights groups. These issues vary from state to state and country to country. In India, father's rights have been a concern since 2000.<ref name=Kumar/> Many men feel that they are discriminated against and that they do not have the same contact rights or equitable [[shared parenting]] rights as their ex-spouse.{{sfn |Messner | 1997 |p = [http://books.google.com/books?id=nG8MGcopgWQC&pg=PA41#v=onepage&q&f=false 41-48] }}<ref name=collier>{{cite news | last = Collier | first = R | coauthors = Sheldon S | date = 2006-11-01 | url = http://society.guardian.co.uk/children/story/0,,1935970,00.html | title = Unfamiliar territory: The issue of a father's rights and responsibilities covers more than just the media-highlighted subject of access to his children | location = London | work = [[The Guardian]] | accessdate = 2011-11-24 }}</ref> The United Kingdom and United States were cited, with several other unnamed countries, as affected regions where [[child custody]] issues have become complicated by higher divorce rates, less father-child time, while there has been greater expectations for fatherly involvement in their children's lives. Authors of ''Unfamiliar territory'' write, "The current struggles of the fathers' rights movement can be understood as part of this complex and painful renegotiation of intimate relations against a backdrop of changing lifestyles and expectations."<ref name=collier/> Father's rights activists seek to change the legal climate for men through changes in family law.{{sfn |Messner | 1997 |p = [http://books.google.com/books?id=nG8MGcopgWQC&pg=PA41#v=onepage&q&f=false 41-48] }} See [[Fathers' rights movement by country]] for more information about custody concerns.  


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Laws and practices regarding spousal support, maintenance or [[alimony]] vary considerably by country and culture.  On one end of the spectrum are Nordic countries, like Sweden, that by 1978 assumed that divorced spouses were not responsible for one another.  Support might be provided for a transitionary period for the lower-wage earner or primarily care-givers, but only in about 6-8% of the cases and only for a limited time.  In most western countries alimony is provided on an ever decreasing basis due to shorter marriages and women more likely to be wage-earners.{{sfn|Goode|1993|p = [http://books.google.ca/books?id=FAK64L2tpKAC&pg=PA40#v=onepage&q&f=false 40], [http://books.google.ca/books?id=FAK64L2tpKAC&pg=PA44#v=onepage&q&f=false 44], [http://books.google.ca/books?id=FAK64L2tpKAC&pg=PA64#v=onepage&q&f=false 64], [http://books.google.ca/books?id=FAK64L2tpKAC&pg=PA90#v=onepage&q&f=false 90-92]}} Italy and many countries in Latin America, are on the other end.  Women may be supported during legal separation, which is a state in which they wish to remain because of low chance of remarriage, religious reasons or to retain inheritance rights to their husband's property.  Such women may be wives to husbands of privileged class.  However, the rate of support is declining in Italy, as well.{{sfn|Goode|1997|p = [http://books.google.ca/books?id=FAK64L2tpKAC&pg=PA62#v=onepage&q&f=false 62-64]}}
Laws and practices regarding spousal support, maintenance or [[alimony]] vary considerably by country and culture.  On one end of the spectrum are Nordic countries, like Sweden, that by 1978 assumed that divorced spouses were not responsible for one another.  Support might be provided for a transitionary period for the lower-wage earner or primarily care-givers, but only in about 6-8% of the cases and only for a limited time.  In most western countries alimony is provided on an ever decreasing basis due to shorter marriages and women more likely to be wage-earners.{{sfn|Goode|1993|p = [http://books.google.ca/books?id=FAK64L2tpKAC&pg=PA40#v=onepage&q&f=false 40], [http://books.google.ca/books?id=FAK64L2tpKAC&pg=PA44#v=onepage&q&f=false 44], [http://books.google.ca/books?id=FAK64L2tpKAC&pg=PA64#v=onepage&q&f=false 64], [http://books.google.ca/books?id=FAK64L2tpKAC&pg=PA90#v=onepage&q&f=false 90-92]}} Italy and many countries in Latin America, are on the other end.  Women may be supported during legal separation, which is a state in which they wish to remain because of low chance of remarriage, religious reasons or to retain inheritance rights to their husband's property.  Such women may be wives to husbands of privileged class.  However, the rate of support is declining in Italy, as well.{{sfn|Goode|1997|p = [http://books.google.ca/books?id=FAK64L2tpKAC&pg=PA62#v=onepage&q&f=false 62-64]}}


Although the rate of payments of spousal support is declining, both due to the reduced rates at which alimony is granted and low rates at which alimony is generally paid, there are concerns regarding men's rights when women continue to receive support after they enter into new relationships and women are supported by men who are "financially strapped".{{sfn | Goode | 1997 | p = [http://books.google.ca/books?id=FAK64L2tpKAC&pg=PA164#v=onepage&q&f=false 164-165] }} In the United States, the current alimony laws are challenged for constitutionality, assignment of temporary vs. permanent financial support paid to a spouse, and fair and equitable treatment under family law; There are several men's rights attempts to reform alimony at a state and federal level, including [[Arizona]], [[Florida]], [[Georgia (United States)|Georgia]], [[Massachusetts]], [[New Jersey]], [[North Carolina]], [[Ohio]], [[Pennsylvania]], and [[Tennessee]].<ref name=Levitz>{{cite news | last = Levitz | first = J | date = 2009-10-31 | url = http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703399204574505700448957522.html | title = The New Art of Alimony | work = [[The Wall Street Journal]] | accessdate = 2011-11-25 }}</ref>
Although the rate of payments of spousal support is declining, both due to the reduced rates at which alimony is granted and low rates at which alimony is generally paid, there are concerns regarding men's rights when women continue to receive support after they enter into new relationships and women are supported by men who are "financially strapped".{{sfn | Goode | 1997 | p = [http://books.google.ca/books?id=FAK64L2tpKAC&pg=PA164#v=onepage&q&f=false 164-165] }} In the United States, the current alimony laws are challenged for constitutionality, assignment of temporary vs. permanent financial support paid to a spouse, and fair and equitable treatment under family law; There are several men's rights attempts to reform alimony at a state and federal level, including [[Arizona (U.S. state)|Arizona]], [[Florida (U.S. state)|Florida]], [[Georgia (United States)|Georgia]], [[Massachusetts (U.S. state)|Massachusetts]], [[New Jersey (U.S. state)|New Jersey]], [[North Carolina (U.S. state)]], [[Ohio (U.S. state)|Ohio]], [[Pennsylvania (U.S. state)|Pennsylvania]], and [[Tennessee (U.S. state)|Tennessee]].<ref name=Levitz>{{cite news | last = Levitz | first = J | date = 2009-10-31 | url = http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703399204574505700448957522.html | title = The New Art of Alimony | work = [[The Wall Street Journal]] | accessdate = 2011-11-25 }}</ref>


Now that women make up a large percentage of the workforce, existing laws regarding alimony in the United States have come into question.<ref name=Levitz/> A legal precedent for gender-blind spousal support, granting men's rights to alimony, in the United States was made in ''[[Orr v. Orr]]'',<ref>{{cite court |litigants= [[Orr v. Orr]] |vol= 440 |reporter= US 268 |opinion= |pinpoint= |court= [[Supreme Court of the United States]] |date= 1979|url= http://supreme.justia.com/us/440/268/ |accessdate= 2011-11-24 |quote=}}</ref> where the Supreme Court invalidated Alabama's statutes by which husbands, but not wives, were required to pay alimony upon divorce. This statute was considered a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. The percentage of alimony recipients in the US who were male rose from 2.4% in (1996–2001) to 3.6% in (2002–2006) and is expected to increase as more marriages feature a female primary earner.<ref name=WSJMenAlimony>{{cite news |url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120700651883978623.html |title=Men Receiving Alimony Want A Little Respect | accessdate=2009-02-03 | work=The Wall Street Journal | first=Anita | last=Raghavan | date=2008-04-01}}</ref>
Now that women make up a large percentage of the workforce, existing laws regarding alimony in the United States have come into question.<ref name=Levitz/> A legal precedent for gender-blind spousal support, granting men's rights to alimony, in the United States was made in ''[[Orr v. Orr]]'',<ref>{{cite court |litigants= [[Orr v. Orr]] |vol= 440 |reporter= US 268 |opinion= |pinpoint= |court= [[Supreme Court of the United States]] |date= 1979|url= http://supreme.justia.com/us/440/268/ |accessdate= 2011-11-24 |quote=}}</ref> where the Supreme Court invalidated Alabama's statutes by which husbands, but not wives, were required to pay alimony upon divorce. This statute was considered a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. The percentage of alimony recipients in the US who were male rose from 2.4% in (1996–2001) to 3.6% in (2002–2006) and is expected to increase as more marriages feature a female primary earner.<ref name=WSJMenAlimony>{{cite news |url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120700651883978623.html |title=Men Receiving Alimony Want A Little Respect | accessdate=2009-02-03 | work=The Wall Street Journal | first=Anita | last=Raghavan | date=2008-04-01}}</ref>
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Men's rights activists, citing [[Domestic violence#Violence against men|a number of academic studies]], assert that domestic violence by women is ignored and under-reported,<ref name="Miller2005"/><ref name=observer/> because men are reluctant to describe themselves as victims.<ref name=observer>{{cite news |url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2003/dec/21/socialcare.uknews |title=Battered men get their own refuge |first= Jamie |last= Doward |work=[[The Observer]] |date=21 December 2003|publisher=[[Guardian Media Group|GMG]] |location=[[London, England|London]] |issn=0261-3077 |oclc=60623878 |accessdate=October 22, 2011}}</ref> They state that women are as aggressive or more aggressive than men in relationships,<ref name="RenzettiEdleson2008">{{cite book|author1=Susan L. Miller|author2=Terry G. Lilley|editor=Claire M. Renzetti and Jeffrey L. Edleson|title=Encyclopedia of interpersonal violence|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=BOKAMXEA_jQC&pg=PT257|year=2008|publisher= [[SAGE Publications]] | isbn = 978-1-4129-1800-8| pages = 257–58 | chapter = Female perpetrators of intimate partner violence}}</ref> that domestic violence is sex-symmetrical,<ref name="Dragiewicz2011 b">{{cite book|author=Molly Dragiewicz|title=Equality with a Vengeance: Men's Rights Groups, Battered Women, and Antifeminist Backlash|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=OHr7yWfEjQYC&pg=PA84|accessdate=October 22, 2011|date=12 April 2011|publisher= [[University Press of New England]] |isbn=978-1-55553-739-5|pages=84–5}}</ref><ref name="LosekeGelles2005">{{cite book|author1=Donileen R. Loseke|author2=Richard J. Gelles|author3=Mary M. Cavanaugh|title=Current controversies on family violence|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=YBVGswoPYqMC&pg=PA92|accessdate=October 22, 2011|year=2005|publisher= [[SAGE Publications]] |isbn=978-0-7619-2106-6|page=92}}</ref> and that judicial systems too easily accept false allegations of domestic violence by women against their male partners.<ref name="Boyd2007">{{cite book|author=Susan B. Boyd|title=Reaction and resistance: feminism, law, and social change|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ASc568aunFoC&pg=PA85|accessdate=October 22, 2011|date=1 October 2007|publisher= [[University of British Columbia Press]] |isbn=978-0-7748-1411-9|page=85}}</ref>  Men's rights writer [[Christina Hoff Sommers]] has commented that "false claims about male domestic violence are ubiquitous and immune to refutation."<ref>{{cite news |title=Domestic violence myths help no one |first=Christina Hoff|last=Sommers |url=http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2011-02-03-sommers04_st_N.htm |newspaper=USA Today |date= February 4, 2011 |accessdate=17 October 2011}}</ref>  Men's rights advocates have been critics of legal, policy and practical protections for abused women,<ref name="Dragiewicz2011c">{{cite book|author=Molly Dragiewicz|title=Equality with a Vengeance: Men's Rights Groups, Battered Women, and Antifeminist Backlash|http://books.google.ca/books?id=OHr7yWfEjQYC&pg=PA3|accessdate=October 22, 2011|date=12 April 2011|publisher= [[University Press of New England]] |isbn=978-1-55553-739-5|pages=3=4, 29}}</ref><ref name="LosekeGelles2005"/><ref name="Kimmel2010">{{cite book|author=Michael Kimmel|title=Misframing Men: The Politics of Contemporary Masculinities|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=wC9_3wBJX6QC&pg=PA1|accessdate=3 November 2012|date=15 June 2010|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=978-0-8135-4762-6|pages=1–}}</ref> campaigning for domestic violence shelters for battered men<ref name="Miller2005">{{cite book|author=Susan L. Miller|title=Victims as offenders: the paradox of women's violence in relationships|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=7CsgywvFH-EC&pg=PA16|accessdate=October 22, 2011|date=October 2005|publisher= [[Rutgers University Press]] |isbn=978-0-8135-3671-2|page=16}}</ref><ref name=observer/> and for the legal system to be educated about women's violence against men.<ref name="Miller2005"/>
Men's rights activists, citing [[Domestic violence#Violence against men|a number of academic studies]], assert that domestic violence by women is ignored and under-reported,<ref name="Miller2005"/><ref name=observer/> because men are reluctant to describe themselves as victims.<ref name=observer>{{cite news |url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2003/dec/21/socialcare.uknews |title=Battered men get their own refuge |first= Jamie |last= Doward |work=[[The Observer]] |date=21 December 2003|publisher=[[Guardian Media Group|GMG]] |location=[[London, England|London]] |issn=0261-3077 |oclc=60623878 |accessdate=October 22, 2011}}</ref> They state that women are as aggressive or more aggressive than men in relationships,<ref name="RenzettiEdleson2008">{{cite book|author1=Susan L. Miller|author2=Terry G. Lilley|editor=Claire M. Renzetti and Jeffrey L. Edleson|title=Encyclopedia of interpersonal violence|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=BOKAMXEA_jQC&pg=PT257|year=2008|publisher= [[SAGE Publications]] | isbn = 978-1-4129-1800-8| pages = 257–58 | chapter = Female perpetrators of intimate partner violence}}</ref> that domestic violence is sex-symmetrical,<ref name="Dragiewicz2011 b">{{cite book|author=Molly Dragiewicz|title=Equality with a Vengeance: Men's Rights Groups, Battered Women, and Antifeminist Backlash|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=OHr7yWfEjQYC&pg=PA84|accessdate=October 22, 2011|date=12 April 2011|publisher= [[University Press of New England]] |isbn=978-1-55553-739-5|pages=84–5}}</ref><ref name="LosekeGelles2005">{{cite book|author1=Donileen R. Loseke|author2=Richard J. Gelles|author3=Mary M. Cavanaugh|title=Current controversies on family violence|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=YBVGswoPYqMC&pg=PA92|accessdate=October 22, 2011|year=2005|publisher= [[SAGE Publications]] |isbn=978-0-7619-2106-6|page=92}}</ref> and that judicial systems too easily accept false allegations of domestic violence by women against their male partners.<ref name="Boyd2007">{{cite book|author=Susan B. Boyd|title=Reaction and resistance: feminism, law, and social change|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ASc568aunFoC&pg=PA85|accessdate=October 22, 2011|date=1 October 2007|publisher= [[University of British Columbia Press]] |isbn=978-0-7748-1411-9|page=85}}</ref>  Men's rights writer [[Christina Hoff Sommers]] has commented that "false claims about male domestic violence are ubiquitous and immune to refutation."<ref>{{cite news |title=Domestic violence myths help no one |first=Christina Hoff|last=Sommers |url=http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2011-02-03-sommers04_st_N.htm |newspaper=USA Today |date= February 4, 2011 |accessdate=17 October 2011}}</ref>  Men's rights advocates have been critics of legal, policy and practical protections for abused women,<ref name="Dragiewicz2011c">{{cite book|author=Molly Dragiewicz|title=Equality with a Vengeance: Men's Rights Groups, Battered Women, and Antifeminist Backlash|http://books.google.ca/books?id=OHr7yWfEjQYC&pg=PA3|accessdate=October 22, 2011|date=12 April 2011|publisher= [[University Press of New England]] |isbn=978-1-55553-739-5|pages=3=4, 29}}</ref><ref name="LosekeGelles2005"/><ref name="Kimmel2010">{{cite book|author=Michael Kimmel|title=Misframing Men: The Politics of Contemporary Masculinities|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=wC9_3wBJX6QC&pg=PA1|accessdate=3 November 2012|date=15 June 2010|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=978-0-8135-4762-6|pages=1–}}</ref> campaigning for domestic violence shelters for battered men<ref name="Miller2005">{{cite book|author=Susan L. Miller|title=Victims as offenders: the paradox of women's violence in relationships|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=7CsgywvFH-EC&pg=PA16|accessdate=October 22, 2011|date=October 2005|publisher= [[Rutgers University Press]] |isbn=978-0-8135-3671-2|page=16}}</ref><ref name=observer/> and for the legal system to be educated about women's violence against men.<ref name="Miller2005"/>


Some academic critics have rejected the research cited by Men's rights activists and dispute their claims that such violence is gender symmetrical,<ref name="Flood2004">{{cite book|author=Flood, Michael|editor=Stacey Elin Rossi|title=The Battle and Backlash Rage on|chapter= Backlash: Angry men’s movements|url=http://www.xyonline.net/sites/default/files/Flood,%20Backlash%20-%20Angry%20men_0.pdf|accessdate=29 December 2011|date=7 July 2004|publisher=Xlibris Corporation|isbn=978-1-4134-5934-0}}</ref><ref name="RenzettiEdleson2008"/><ref name=Dobash>{{cite journal | last = Dobash | first = Russell P.| coauthors = R. Emerson Dobash, Margo Wilson, Martin Daly | title=The Myth of Sexual Symmetry in Marital Violence | journal = Social Problems | date = February 1992 | volume= 39 | issue=1 | doi = 10.1177/107780102237407 }}</ref><ref name="Messner 1"/><ref name="Kimmel2002">{{cite journal|last1=Kimmel|first1=M. S.|title="Gender Symmetry" in Domestic Violence: A Substantive and Methodological Research Review|journal=Violence Against Women|volume=8|issue=11|year=2002|pages=1332–1363|issn=1077-8012|doi=10.1177/107780102237407}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Susan L. Miller|author2=Terry G. Lilley|editor=Claire M. Renzetti and Jeffrey L. Edleson|title=Encyclopedia of interpersonal violence|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=BOKAMXEA_jQC&pg=PT257|year=2008|publisher= [[SAGE Publications]] | isbn = 978-1-4129-1800-8| pages = 257–58 | chapter = Female perpetrators of intimate partner violence}}</ref> arguing that the focus on women's violence stems from a political agenda to minimize the issue of men's violence against women<ref name="Flood2004"/> and to undermine services to abused women.<ref name="RenzettiEdleson2008"/><ref name="Kimmel2002"/>  Donileen Loseke, Mary Cavanaugh and Richard Gelles cite as an example the challenge to the [[Minnesota]] Battered Woman's Act by the Men's Defense Association claiming that it was discriminatory because it protected women but not men.<ref name="LosekeGelles2005"/>
Some academic critics have rejected the research cited by Men's rights activists and dispute their claims that such violence is gender symmetrical,<ref name="Flood2004">{{cite book|author=Flood, Michael|editor=Stacey Elin Rossi|title=The Battle and Backlash Rage on|chapter= Backlash: Angry men’s movements|url=http://www.xyonline.net/sites/default/files/Flood,%20Backlash%20-%20Angry%20men_0.pdf|accessdate=29 December 2011|date=7 July 2004|publisher=Xlibris Corporation|isbn=978-1-4134-5934-0}}</ref><ref name="RenzettiEdleson2008"/><ref name=Dobash>{{cite journal | last = Dobash | first = Russell P.| coauthors = R. Emerson Dobash, Margo Wilson, Martin Daly | title=The Myth of Sexual Symmetry in Marital Violence | journal = Social Problems | date = February 1992 | volume= 39 | issue=1 | doi = 10.1177/107780102237407 }}</ref><ref name="Messner 1"/><ref name="Kimmel2002">{{cite journal|last1=Kimmel|first1=M. S.|title="Gender Symmetry" in Domestic Violence: A Substantive and Methodological Research Review|journal=Violence Against Women|volume=8|issue=11|year=2002|pages=1332–1363|issn=1077-8012|doi=10.1177/107780102237407}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Susan L. Miller|author2=Terry G. Lilley|editor=Claire M. Renzetti and Jeffrey L. Edleson|title=Encyclopedia of interpersonal violence|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=BOKAMXEA_jQC&pg=PT257|year=2008|publisher= [[SAGE Publications]] | isbn = 978-1-4129-1800-8| pages = 257–58 | chapter = Female perpetrators of intimate partner violence}}</ref> arguing that the focus on women's violence stems from a political agenda to minimize the issue of men's violence against women<ref name="Flood2004"/> and to undermine services to abused women.<ref name="RenzettiEdleson2008"/><ref name="Kimmel2002"/>  Donileen Loseke, Mary Cavanaugh and Richard Gelles cite as an example the challenge to the [[Minnesota (U.S. state)|Minnesota]] Battered Woman's Act by the Men's Defense Association claiming that it was discriminatory because it protected women but not men.<ref name="LosekeGelles2005"/>


===Education===
===Education===
Men's rights activists describe the education of boys as being in crisis, with boys having reduced educational achievement and motivation as compared to girls.<ref name=forbes/>   
Men's rights activists describe the education of boys as being in crisis, with boys having reduced educational achievement and motivation as compared to girls.<ref name=forbes/>   
Advocates blame the influence of feminism on education for discrimination against and systematic oppression of boys in the education system.<ref name="MartinoKehler2009">{{cite book|author1=Mills, Martin|author2=Francis, Becky|author3=Skelton, Christine|editor=Wayne Martino, Michael Kehler, and Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower|title=The problem with boys' education: beyond the backlash|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ouWMouuNuWAC&pg=PA38|date=8 June 2009|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-56023-683-2|pages=38–55|chapter=Gender policies in Australia and the United Kingdom}}</ref>  They critique what they describe as the "feminization" of education, stating that the predominance of female teachers, a focus on girls' needs as well as a curricula and assessment methods that favour girls have proved repressive and restrictive to men and boys.<ref name=forbes/><ref name="FrancisSkelton2005">{{cite book|author1=Becky Francis|author2=Christine Skelton|title=Reassessing gender and achievement: questioning contemporary key debates|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=XkkfekXzkZMC&pg=PA18|accessdate=26 December 2011|date=27 September 2005|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-33324-5|pages=18–19, 141 }}</ref>
Advocates blame the influence of feminism on education for discrimination against and systematic oppression of boys in the education system.<ref name="MartinoKehler2009">{{cite book|author1=Mills, Martin|author2=Francis, Becky|author3=Skelton, Christine|editor=Wayne Martino, Michael Kehler, and Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower|title=The problem with boys' education: beyond the backlash|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ouWMouuNuWAC&pg=PA38|date=8 June 2009|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-56023-683-2|pages=38–55|chapter=Gender policies in Australia and the United Kingdom}}</ref>  They critique what they describe as the "feminization" of education, stating that the predominance of female teachers, a focus on girls' needs as well as a curricula and assessment methods that favour girls have proved repressive and restrictive to men and boys.<ref name=forbes/><ref name="FrancisSkelton2005">{{cite book|author1=Becky Francis|author2=Christine Skelton|title=Reassessing gender and achievement: questioning contemporary key debates|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=XkkfekXzkZMC&pg=PA18|accessdate=26 December 2011|date=27 September 2005|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-33324-5|pages=18–19, 141 }}</ref>  


Men's rights groups call for increased recognition of masculinity, greater numbers of male role models, more competitive sports, and the increased responsibilities for boys in the school setting. They have also advocated clearer school routines, more traditional school structures, including single-sex classes, and stricter discipline.<ref name="FrancisSkelton2005"/>  
Men's rights groups call for increased recognition of masculinity, greater numbers of male role models, more competitive sports, and the increased responsibilities for boys in the school setting. They have also advocated clearer school routines, more traditional school structures, including single-sex classes, and stricter discipline.<ref name="FrancisSkelton2005"/>  
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===Rape===
===Rape===
{{Main|False accusation of rape|Marital rape}}
Men's rights activists are concerned with [[false accusation of rape|false accusations of rape]] and [[sexual assault]]<ref name=telher>{{cite news |url= http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1992-10-30/features/9204080516_1_consensual-sex-contract-accusations-mel-feit |title= Sex Contract Shares Intimate Knowledge |first=Barbara |last=Brotman |work=The Chicago Tribune |date= October 30, 1992 |accessdate=1 November 2012}}</ref> and desire to protect men from the negative consequences of false accusations.<ref name="Kimmel">{{citation |title=Men and Masculinities: A Social, Cultural and Historical Encyclopedia |author=Michael Kimmel |year=1992 |contribution=Anti-Feminism |pages=35–37 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-57607-774-0 |editor= Michael S. Kimmel and Amy Aronson |publication-date=2003 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=jWj5OBvTh1IC&pg=PA37 |accessdate=23 December 2011}}</ref> They assert that the naming of the accused while providing the accuser with anonymity encourages abuse.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,158869,00.html |title=Privacy Rights Eroding Down Slippery Slope &#124|first= McElroy |last=Wendy |work=foxnews.com |year=2011 [last update] |accessdate=23 December 2011}}</ref>{{sfn|Farrell|1994|p = 161}}<ref>{{cite news |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/3374319.stm |title=Rape case protection bid rejected |work=[[BBC News]] |date=7 January 2004, |publisher=[[British Broadcasting Corporation|BBC]]|accessdate=3 November 2012}}</ref>
Men's rights activists are concerned with [[false accusation of rape|false accusations of rape]] and [[sexual assault]]<ref name=telher>{{cite news |url= http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1992-10-30/features/9204080516_1_consensual-sex-contract-accusations-mel-feit |title= Sex Contract Shares Intimate Knowledge |first=Barbara |last=Brotman |work=The Chicago Tribune |date= October 30, 1992 |accessdate=1 November 2012}}</ref> and desire to protect men from the negative consequences of false accusations.<ref name="Kimmel">{{citation |title=Men and Masculinities: A Social, Cultural and Historical Encyclopedia |author=Michael Kimmel |year=1992 |contribution=Anti-Feminism |pages=35–37 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-57607-774-0 |editor= Michael S. Kimmel and Amy Aronson |publication-date=2003 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=jWj5OBvTh1IC&pg=PA37 |accessdate=23 December 2011}}</ref> They assert that the naming of the accused while providing the accuser with anonymity encourages abuse.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,158869,00.html |title=Privacy Rights Eroding Down Slippery Slope &#124|first= McElroy |last=Wendy |work=foxnews.com |year=2011 [last update] |accessdate=23 December 2011}}</ref>{{sfn|Farrell|1994|p = 161}}<ref>{{cite news |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/3374319.stm |title=Rape case protection bid rejected |work=[[BBC News]] |date=7 January 2004, |publisher=[[British Broadcasting Corporation|BBC]]|accessdate=3 November 2012}}</ref>


Men's rights activists in the United Kingdom, the United States and India have opposed legislation criminalizing [[marital rape]].<ref name="LosekeGelles2005">{{cite book|author1=Donileen R. Loseke|author2=Richard J. Gelles|author3=Mary M. Cavanaugh|title=Current controversies on family violence|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=YBVGswoPYqMC&pg=PA92|accessdate=6 February 2012|year=2005|publisher=SAGE|isbn=978-0-7619-2106-6|page=92}}</ref><ref name="Dunphy2000">{{cite book|author=Richard Dunphy|title=Sexual Politics: An Introduction|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=NVPQkt0bVpAC&pg=PA142|accessdate=11 October 2012|year=2000|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|isbn=978-0-7486-1247-5|page=142}}</ref><ref name=dhillon/><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.firstpost.com/india/why-mens-rights-activists-are-against-inclusion-of-marital-rape-615413.html |title= Why men's rights activists are against inclusion of marital rape |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date= February 6, 2013 |work= [[First Post (India)|First Post]] |publisher= |accessdate= March 10, 2013}}</ref> The reasons for opposition include concerns about false allegations related to divorce proceedings,<ref>{{cite web |url= http://web.archive.org/web/20080706190837/http://www.strike-the-root.com/columns/Miller/miller1.html |title=Marital Rape - What a Can of Worms! |first= Stuart A|last=Millar |work=Strike at the Root |year=2002|accessdate=11 October 2012}}</ref>{{sfn|Farrell|1994|p = 338|ps=:"Spousal rape legislation is blackmail waiting to happen. If a man feels he needs to file for divorce, his wife can say 'If you do, I'll accuse you of spousal rape.' Spousal rape legislation is worse than government-as-substitute-husband. It's government in the bedroom"}}<ref>{{cite news|title=Spousal Rape Laws|accessdate=2012/11/03.|newspaper=[[CNN]]|date=July 31, 1992|quote=Tom Williamson, President [[National Coalition of Free Men]]: "I don't think that there should be anything called marital rape laws.  I don't deny that the elements involved with rape can occur in a marriage.  They certainly do.  But the problem with the concept of having something called marital rape is that it makes every man vulnerable in a bad situation to blackmail.  It makes them vulnerable to false accusations for a variety of motivations that we know exists"}}</ref> and in India anxiety about relationships<ref name="Pandey2010">{{cite news|last=Pandey|first=Vineeta|title=Husbands can't get away with marital rape: Government|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_husbands-can-t-get-away-with-marital-rape-government_1356512|newspaper=DNA|accessdate=30 September 2012|quote="no relationship will work if these rules are enforced."|date=8 March 2010|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20100331132152/http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_husbands-can-t-get-away-with-marital-rape-government_1356512|archivedate=31 March 2010}}</ref> and the future of marriage as such laws give women "grossly disproportional rights".<ref name=dhillon>{{cite news |title=Women confident law will end culture of abuse |newspaper=[[South China Morning Post]] |url=http://www.scmp.com/node/569778|first= Amrit |last=Dhillon  |date=01 November, 2006 |accessdate=11 October 2012|quote="The All India Harassed Husbands Association protested last week at the law. 'It gives such grossly disproportionate rights to women that men won't want to get married,' said member Akhil Gupta"}}</ref> Virag Dhulia of the [[Save Indian Family Foundation]], a men's rights organization, has opposed recent efforts to criminalize [[marital rape]] in India, arguing that "no relationship will work if these rules are enforced."<ref name="Pandey2010">{{cite news|last=Pandey|first=Vineeta|title=Husbands can’t get away with marital rape: Government|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_husbands-can-t-get-away-with-marital-rape-government_1356512|newspaper=DNA|accessdate=30 September 2012|date=8 March 2010|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20100331132152/http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_husbands-can-t-get-away-with-marital-rape-government_1356512|archivedate=31 March 2010}}</ref>
Men's rights activists in the United Kingdom, the United States and India have opposed legislation criminalizing [[marital rape]].<ref name="LosekeGelles2005"/><ref name="Dunphy2000">{{cite book|author=Richard Dunphy|title=Sexual Politics: An Introduction|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=NVPQkt0bVpAC&pg=PA142|accessdate=11 October 2012|year=2000|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|isbn=978-0-7486-1247-5|page=142}}</ref><ref name=dhillon/><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.firstpost.com/india/why-mens-rights-activists-are-against-inclusion-of-marital-rape-615413.html |title= Why men's rights activists are against inclusion of marital rape |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date= February 6, 2013 |work= [[First Post (India)|First Post]] |publisher= |accessdate= March 10, 2013}}</ref> The reasons for opposition include concerns about false allegations related to divorce proceedings,<ref>{{cite web |url= http://web.archive.org/web/20080706190837/http://www.strike-the-root.com/columns/Miller/miller1.html |title=Marital Rape - What a Can of Worms! |first= Stuart A|last=Millar |work=Strike at the Root |year=2002|accessdate=11 October 2012}}</ref>{{sfn|Farrell|1994|p = 338|ps=:"Spousal rape legislation is blackmail waiting to happen. If a man feels he needs to file for divorce, his wife can say 'If you do, I'll accuse you of spousal rape.' Spousal rape legislation is worse than government-as-substitute-husband. It's government in the bedroom"}}<ref>{{cite news|title=Spousal Rape Laws|accessdate=2012/11/03.|newspaper=CNN|date=July 31, 1992|quote=Tom Williamson, President [[National Coalition of Free Men]]: "I don't think that there should be anything called marital rape laws.  I don't deny that the elements involved with rape can occur in a marriage.  They certainly do.  But the problem with the concept of having something called marital rape is that it makes every man vulnerable in a bad situation to blackmail.  It makes them vulnerable to false accusations for a variety of motivations that we know exists"}}</ref> and in India anxiety about relationships<ref name="Pandey2010">{{cite news|last=Pandey|first=Vineeta|title=Husbands can't get away with marital rape: Government|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_husbands-can-t-get-away-with-marital-rape-government_1356512|newspaper=DNA|accessdate=30 September 2012|quote="no relationship will work if these rules are enforced."|date=8 March 2010|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20100331132152/http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_husbands-can-t-get-away-with-marital-rape-government_1356512|archivedate=31 March 2010}}</ref> and the future of marriage as such laws give women "grossly disproportional rights".<ref name=dhillon>{{cite news |title=Women confident law will end culture of abuse |newspaper=[[South China Morning Post]] |url=http://www.scmp.com/node/569778|first= Amrit |last=Dhillon  |date=01 November, 2006 |accessdate=11 October 2012|quote="The All India Harassed Husbands Association protested last week at the law. 'It gives such grossly disproportionate rights to women that men won't want to get married,' said member Akhil Gupta"}}</ref> Virag Dhulia of the [[Save Indian Family Foundation]], a men's rights organization, has opposed recent efforts to criminalize [[marital rape]] in India, arguing that "no relationship will work if these rules are enforced."<ref name="Pandey2010"/>


===Female privilege===
===Female privilege===
{{See also|Male privilege#Against the notion of male privilege}}
The men's rights movement asserts that males no longer hold [[male privilege]] to the exclusion of females, with two variations: those who argue that [[sexism]] harms men and women equally as both genders have different privileges, and those who believe that female privilege has become the norm to the detriment of men.<ref>{{cite book | last = Clatterbaugh | first = Kenneth | title = Contemporary Perspectives on Masculinity | year = 1997 | publisher = WestviewPress | isbn=0-8133-2700-8 | pages = 11 | url = http://digilib.bc.edu/reserves/en125/grif/en125105.pdf | format = pdf }}</ref>
The men's rights movement asserts that males no longer hold [[male privilege]] to the exclusion of females, with two variations: those who argue that [[sexism]] harms men and women equally as both genders have different privileges, and those who believe that female privilege has become the norm to the detriment of men.<ref>{{cite book | last = Clatterbaugh | first = Kenneth | title = Contemporary Perspectives on Masculinity | year = 1997 | publisher = WestviewPress | isbn=0-8133-2700-8 | pages = 11 | url = http://digilib.bc.edu/reserves/en125/grif/en125105.pdf | format = pdf }}</ref>


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===Health===
===Health===
Men's rights activists view the health issues faced by men and their shorter life spans as compared to women as evidence of discrimination and oppression.{{sfn |Messner | 1997 |p = [http://books.google.com/books?id=nG8MGcopgWQC&pg=PA41#v=onepage&q&f=false 41-48] }}<ref name="HaywoodGhaill2003"/>  They state that feminism has led to women's health issues being privileged at the expense of men's.<ref name="Boyd2007">{{cite book|author=Menzies, Robert|editor=Susan B. Boyd|title=Reaction and resistance: feminism, law, and social change|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ASc568aunFoC&pg=PA86|accessdate=30 December 2011|date=30 November 2007|publisher=UBC Press|isbn=978-0-7748-1411-9|pages=65–97|chapter=Virtual Backlash: Representations of men's "rights" and feminist "wrongs" in cyberspace}}</ref> They point to higher suicide rates in men compared to women,<ref name="HaywoodGhaill2003"/><ref name="Boyd2007"/> and complain about the funding of men's health issues as compared to women's, including noting that prostate cancer research receives less funding than breast-cancer research.<ref name="HaywoodGhaill2003">{{cite book|author1=Christian Haywood|author2=Máirtín Mac an Ghaill|title=Men and masculinities: theory, research, and social practice|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=d-vtAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=30 December 2011|date=1 January 2003|publisher= [[McGraw-Hill|Open University Press]] |pages=134–5|isbn=978-0-335-20892-0}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-06-21/features/9806210422_1_men-and-masculinity-dads-million-man-march |title=Feminism Has Created Progress, But Man, Oh, Man, Look What Else  |first=Kate |last=Zernike  |work= [[Chicago Tribune]] |date=1998-06-21 |accessdate=2011-12-30 }}</ref>  [[David Benatar]] has suggested more money should be put into health research on males in order to reduce the disparity between men's and women's [[life expectancy]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Benatar | first = D | authorlink = David Benatar | title = The Second Sexism: Discrimination Against Men and Boys | isbn = 1118192303 | publisher = [[John Wiley & Sons]] | pages = [http://books.google.ca/books?id=iGZ0dhvvVN8C&pg=PA190#v=onepage&q&f=false 190] | year = 2012 }}</ref>  Some doctors and academics have argued [[circumcision]] is a violation of men's right to health and bodily integrity,<ref>{{cite book|last=Denniston|first=George C.|title=Male and female circumcision medical, legal, and ethical considerations in pediatric practice|year=1999|publisher=Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers|location=New York|isbn=0-306-46131-5|page=348}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=El-Salam|first=Seham Abd|title=The Importance of Genital Mutilations to Gender Power Politics|journal=Al-Raida|year=2002/2003|volume=20|issue=99|page=42|publisher=Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World|quote=Women’s defense of men’s right to bodily integrity and their work against MGM will not have a negative impact on their struggle against FGM.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last = Somerville | first = M | chapter = Altering baby boys' bodies: the ethics of infant male circumcision | title = The Ethical Canary: Science, Society and the Human Spirit | location = Toronto | publisher = [[Viking Press]] | isbn = 0-670-89302-1 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Green|first=James|title=The Male Herbal: The Definitive Health Care Book for Men & Boys|year=2007|publisher=Crossing Press|location=Berkeley, Calif.|isbn=1-58091-175-7|edition=2nd|quote=Circumcision: A Common Form of Disregard for Men's Rights… Glick emphasizes that infants are persons with full civil rights, and therefore no one has the right to impose circumcision on them—not even parents.}}</ref> while others have disagreed.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Benatar M, Benatar D |title=Between prophylaxis and child abuse: the ethics of neonatal male circumcision |journal=Am J Bioeth |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages=35–48 |year=2003 |pmid=12859815 |doi=10.1162/152651603766436216 |url=}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Clark PA, Eisenman J, Szapor S |title=Mandatory neonatal male circumcision in Sub-Saharan Africa: medical and ethical analysis |journal=Med. Sci. Monit. |volume=13 |issue=12 |pages=RA205–13 |year=2007 |month=December |pmid=18049444 |doi= |url=}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Patrick K |title=Is infant male circumcision an abuse of the rights of the child? No |journal=BMJ |volume=335 |issue=7631 |pages=1181 |year=2007 |month=December |pmid=18063641 |pmc=2128676 |doi=10.1136/bmj.39406.523762.AD |url=}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Brusa M, Barilan YM |title=Cultural circumcision in EU public hospitals--an ethical discussion |journal=Bioethics |volume=23 |issue=8 |pages=470–82 |year=2009 |month=October |pmid=19076127 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-8519.2008.00683.x |url=}}</ref>
Men's rights activists view the health issues faced by men and their shorter life spans as compared to women as evidence of discrimination and oppression.{{sfn |Messner | 1997 |p = [http://books.google.com/books?id=nG8MGcopgWQC&pg=PA41#v=onepage&q&f=false 41-48] }}<ref name="HaywoodGhaill2003"/>  They state that feminism has led to women's health issues being privileged at the expense of men's.<ref name="Boyd2007b">{{cite book|author=Menzies, Robert|editor=Susan B. Boyd|title=Reaction and resistance: feminism, law, and social change|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ASc568aunFoC&pg=PA86|accessdate=30 December 2011|date=30 November 2007|publisher=UBC Press|isbn=978-0-7748-1411-9|pages=65–97|chapter=Virtual Backlash: Representations of men's "rights" and feminist "wrongs" in cyberspace}}</ref> They point to higher suicide rates in men compared to women,<ref name="HaywoodGhaill2003"/> and complain about the funding of men's health issues as compared to women's, including noting that prostate cancer research receives less funding than breast-cancer research.<ref name="HaywoodGhaill2003">{{cite book|author1=Christian Haywood|author2=Máirtín Mac an Ghaill|title=Men and masculinities: theory, research, and social practice|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=d-vtAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=30 December 2011|date=1 January 2003|publisher= [[McGraw-Hill|Open University Press]] |pages=134–5|isbn=978-0-335-20892-0}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-06-21/features/9806210422_1_men-and-masculinity-dads-million-man-march |title=Feminism Has Created Progress, But Man, Oh, Man, Look What Else  |first=Kate |last=Zernike  |work= [[Chicago Tribune]] |date=1998-06-21 |accessdate=2011-12-30 }}</ref>  [[David Benatar]] has suggested more money should be put into health research on males in order to reduce the disparity between men's and women's [[life expectancy]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Benatar | first = D | authorlink = David Benatar | title = The Second Sexism: Discrimination Against Men and Boys | isbn = 1118192303 | publisher = [[John Wiley & Sons]] | pages = [http://books.google.ca/books?id=iGZ0dhvvVN8C&pg=PA190#v=onepage&q&f=false 190] | year = 2012 }}</ref>  Some doctors and academics have argued [[circumcision]] is a violation of men's right to health and bodily integrity,<ref>{{cite book|last=Denniston|first=George C.|title=Male and female circumcision medical, legal, and ethical considerations in pediatric practice|year=1999|publisher=Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers|location=New York|isbn=0-306-46131-5|page=348}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=El-Salam|first=Seham Abd|title=The Importance of Genital Mutilations to Gender Power Politics|journal=Al-Raida|year=2002/2003|volume=20|issue=99|page=42|publisher=Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World|quote=Women’s defense of men’s right to bodily integrity and their work against MGM will not have a negative impact on their struggle against FGM.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last = Somerville | first = M | chapter = Altering baby boys' bodies: the ethics of infant male circumcision | title = The Ethical Canary: Science, Society and the Human Spirit | location = Toronto | publisher = [[Viking Press]] | isbn = 0-670-89302-1 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Green|first=James|title=The Male Herbal: The Definitive Health Care Book for Men & Boys|year=2007|publisher=Crossing Press|location=Berkeley, Calif.|isbn=1-58091-175-7|edition=2nd|quote=Circumcision: A Common Form of Disregard for Men's Rights… Glick emphasizes that infants are persons with full civil rights, and therefore no one has the right to impose circumcision on them—not even parents.}}</ref> while others have disagreed.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Benatar M, Benatar D |title=Between prophylaxis and child abuse: the ethics of neonatal male circumcision |journal=Am J Bioeth |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages=35–48 |year=2003 |pmid=12859815 |doi=10.1162/152651603766436216 |url=}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Clark PA, Eisenman J, Szapor S |title=Mandatory neonatal male circumcision in Sub-Saharan Africa: medical and ethical analysis |journal=Med. Sci. Monit. |volume=13 |issue=12 |pages=RA205–13 |year=2007 |month=December |pmid=18049444 |doi= |url=}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Patrick K |title=Is infant male circumcision an abuse of the rights of the child? No |journal=BMJ |volume=335 |issue=7631 |pages=1181 |year=2007 |month=December |pmid=18063641 |pmc=2128676 |doi=10.1136/bmj.39406.523762.AD |url=}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Brusa M, Barilan YM |title=Cultural circumcision in EU public hospitals--an ethical discussion |journal=Bioethics |volume=23 |issue=8 |pages=470–82 |year=2009 |month=October |pmid=19076127 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-8519.2008.00683.x |url=}}</ref>


Many academics have critiqued these claims,<ref name="HaywoodGhaill2003"/><ref name="Flood2004"/>{{sfn|Messner|1997|p = [http://books.google.ca/books?id=nG8MGcopgWQC&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q&f=false 6-7]}} stating, as [[Michael Messner]] puts it, that the poorer health outcomes are the heavy costs paid by men "for conformity with the narrow definitions of masculinity that promise to bring them status and privilege"{{sfn|Messner|1997|p = [http://books.google.ca/books?id=nG8MGcopgWQC&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q&f=false 6-7]}} and that these costs fall disproportionately on men who are marginalized socially and economically.{{sfn|Messner|1997|p = [http://books.google.ca/books?id=nG8MGcopgWQC&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q&f=false 6-7]}}  In this view, and according to [[Michael Flood]], men's health would best be improved by "tackling destructive notions of manhood, an economic system which values profit and productivity over workers’ health, and the ignorance of service providers" instead of blaming a feminist health movement.<ref name="Flood2004"/>
Many academics have critiqued these claims,<ref name="HaywoodGhaill2003"/><ref name="Flood2004"/>{{sfn|Messner|1997|p = [http://books.google.ca/books?id=nG8MGcopgWQC&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q&f=false 6-7]}} stating, as [[Michael Messner]] puts it, that the poorer health outcomes are the heavy costs paid by men "for conformity with the narrow definitions of masculinity that promise to bring them status and privilege"{{sfn|Messner|1997|p = [http://books.google.ca/books?id=nG8MGcopgWQC&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q&f=false 6-7]}} and that these costs fall disproportionately on men who are marginalized socially and economically.{{sfn|Messner|1997|p = [http://books.google.ca/books?id=nG8MGcopgWQC&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q&f=false 6-7]}}  In this view, and according to [[Michael Flood]], men's health would best be improved by "tackling destructive notions of manhood, an economic system which values profit and productivity over workers’ health, and the ignorance of service providers" instead of blaming a feminist health movement.<ref name="Flood2004"/>
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===Paternity fraud===
===Paternity fraud===
{{Main|Misattributed paternity|paternity fraud}}
Men's and fathers' rights groups have stated that there are high levels of misattributed paternity or "paternity fraud", where men are parenting and/or supporting financially children who are not biologically their own.<ref name=cannold/> They hold biological views of fatherhood, emphasizing the imperative of the genetic foundation of paternity rather than social aspects of fatherhood.<ref name="RothsteinMurray2005">{{cite book|author=Majumber, Mary Anderlik |editor1=Mark A. Rothstein|editor2=Thomas H. Murray|editor3=Gregory E. Kaebnick|chapter=Disestablishment Suits|title=Genetic Ties and the Family: The Impact of Paternity Testing on Parents and Children|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Q_FN-L-VZGYC&pg=PA173date=12 September 2005|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=978-0-8018-8193-0|pages=172–79}}</ref><ref name=cannold/> They state that men should not be forced to support children fathered by another man,<ref name=salah/> and that men are harmed because a relationship is created between a man and non-biological children while denying the children and their biological father of that experience and knowledge of their genetic history. In addition, non-biological fathers are denied the resources to have their own biological children in another relationship.<ref name=cannold/>  Men's rights activists support the use of [[paternity testing]] to reassure presumed fathers about the child's paternity;<ref name=salah/> men's and fathers' rights groups have called for compulsory paternity testing of all children.<ref name=karvelas>{{cite news |url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/fathers-demand-mandatory-paternity-testing/story-e6frg6nf-1226006586479 |title=Fathers demand mandatory paternity testing|first=Patricia|last=Karvelas|work=The Australian|date=16 February 2011|accessdate=3 October 2013}}</ref><ref name=cannold/><ref>{{cite news|title=Who's your daddy?|newspaper=Philadelphia Daily News|date=5 October 2005|quote="I think the best solution is DNA testing at birth," said Glenn Sacks, a syndicated radio talk-show host who focuses on men's issues}}</ref>  They have campaigned vigorously in support of men who have been shown by genetic testing not to be the biological father, but who are nevertheless required to be financially responsible for them.<ref name="RothsteinMurray2005"/>  Prompted by these concerns, legislators in certain jurisdictions have supported this biological view and have passed laws providing relief from child support payments when a man is proved not to be the father.<ref name="RothsteinMurray2005"/><ref name=cannold>{{cite journal|last=Cannold|first=Leslie|journal=Women's Studies International Forum|title= Who's the father? Rethinking the moral 'crime' of 'paternity fraud'|date=July–August 2008|volume=31|issue=4|pages=249–256|doi=10.1016/j.wsif.2008.05.011|url=http://cannold.com/static/files/assets/aa358dd8/rethinking-the-moral-crime-of-paternity-fraud.pdf}}</ref>  Australian men's rights groups have opposed the recommendations of a report by the [[Australian Law Reform Commission]] and the [[National Health and Medical Research Council]] that would require the consent of both parents for paternity testing of young children,<ref name=salah>{{cite web |url= http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2005/12/14/1530514.htm |title=Teens may be forced to have paternity test|first= Anna|last=Salah|work=abc.net.au |date= 14 December 2005 |accessdate=27 October 2012}}</ref> and laws that would make it illegal to obtain a sample for DNA testing without the individual's consent.<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/legal-affairs/fathers-disrupt-debate-on-dna/story-e6frg97x-1111118010434 |title=Fathers 'disrupt debate on DNA'|work= The Australian |first=Leigh |last=Dayton |date=12 November 2008|accessdate=27 October 2012}}</ref>  Sociologist Michael Gilding asserts that men's rights activists have exaggerated the rate and extent of misattributed paternity, which he estimates at about 1-3%.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2097814/Whos-daddy-New-survey-claims-paternity-questions-plague-1-10-Americans.html|title=Who's your daddy? New survey claims paternity questions plague 1 in 10 Americans|first=Nina|last=Golgowski|work=The Daily Mail|date=7 February 2012|accessdate=3 October 2013}}</ref><ref name=karvelas/> He opposed as unnecessary calls for mandatory paternity testing of all children.<ref name=karvelas/>
Men's and fathers' rights groups have stated that there are high levels of misattributed paternity or "paternity fraud", where men are parenting and/or supporting financially children who are not biologically their own.<ref name=cannold/> They hold biological views of fatherhood, emphasizing the imperative of the genetic foundation of paternity rather than social aspects of fatherhood.<ref name="RothsteinMurray2005">{{cite book|author=Majumber, Mary Anderlik |editor1=Mark A. Rothstein|editor2=Thomas H. Murray|editor3=Gregory E. Kaebnick|chapter=Disestablishment Suits|title=Genetic Ties and the Family: The Impact of Paternity Testing on Parents and Children|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Q_FN-L-VZGYC&pg=PA173date=12 September 2005|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=978-0-8018-8193-0|pages=172–79}}</ref><ref name=cannold/> They state that men should not be forced to support children fathered by another man,<ref name=salah/> and that men are harmed because a relationship is created between a man and non-biological children while denying the children and their biological father of that experience and knowledge of their genetic history. In addition, non-biological fathers are denied the resources to have their own biological children in another relationship.<ref name=cannold/>  Men's rights activists support the use of [[paternity testing]] to reassure presumed fathers about the child's paternity;<ref name=salah/> men's and fathers' rights groups have called for compulsory paternity testing of all children.<ref name=shepherd>{{cite news |url= http://www.news.com.au/technology/men-flock-online-for-peace-of-mind-paternity-tests/story-e6frfro0-1226385528162 |title=Men flock online for 'peace of mind' paternity tests |first= Tory |last= Shepherd|work=news.com.au |date= 6 June 2012|accessdate=27 October 2012}}</ref><ref name=cannold/><ref>{{cite news|title=Who's your daddy?|newspaper=Philadelphia Daily News|date=5 October 2005|quote="I think the best solution is DNA testing at birth," said Glenn Sacks, a syndicated radio talk-show host who focuses on men's issues}}</ref>  They have campaigned vigorously in support of men who have been shown by genetic testing not to be the biological father, but who are nevertheless required to be financially responsible for them.<ref name="RothsteinMurray2005"/>  Prompted by these concerns, legislators in certain jurisdictions have supported this biological view and have passed laws providing relief from child support payments when a man is proved not to be the father.<ref name="RothsteinMurray2005"/><ref name=cannold>{{cite journal|last=Cannold|first=Leslie|journal=Women's Studies International Forum|title= Who's the father? Rethinking the moral 'crime' of 'paternity fraud'|date=July–August 2008|volume=31|issue=4|pages=249–256|doi=10.1016/j.wsif.2008.05.011|url=http://cannold.com/static/files/assets/aa358dd8/rethinking-the-moral-crime-of-paternity-fraud.pdf}}</ref>  Australian men's rights groups have opposed the recommendations of a report by the [[Australian Law Reform Commission]] and the [[National Health and Medical Research Council]] that would require the consent of both parents for paternity testing of young children,<ref name=salah>{{cite web |url= http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2005/12/14/1530514.htm |title=Teens may be forced to have paternity test|first= Anna|last=Salah|work=abc.net.au |date= 14 December 2005 |accessdate=27 October 2012}}</ref> and laws that would make it illegal to obtain a sample for DNA testing without the individual's consent.<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/legal-affairs/fathers-disrupt-debate-on-dna/story-e6frg97x-1111118010434 |title=Fathers 'disrupt debate on DNA'|work= The Australian |first=Leigh |last=Dayton |date=12 November 2008|accessdate=27 October 2012}}</ref>  Sociologist Michael Gilding asserts that men's rights activists have exaggerated the rate and extent of misattributed paternity, which he estimates at about 1-3%.<ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/the-myth-behind-paternity-fraud/2005/06/29/1119724699885.html |title=The myth behind paternity fraud|first= Adele |last=Horrin |work=[[Sydney Morning Herald]] |date= 30 June 2005|accessdate=27 October 2012}}</ref><ref name=shepherd/> He opposed as unnecessary calls for mandatory paternity testing of all children.<ref name=shepherd/>


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Men's rights groups argue that women are given superior social security and tax benefits than men.{{sfn|Flood|2007| p = [http://books.google.com/books?id=jh7y6ELc90YC&pg=PA430#v=onepage&q&f=false 430-433]}}<ref name="Honderich2005">{{cite book|author=Ferrell Christensen|editor=Ted Honderich|title=The Oxford companion to philosophy|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=F9oAomj2IIwC&pg=PA563|accessdate=10 December 2011|date=26 May 2005|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-926479-7|pages=562–63|chapter=Masculism}}</ref> Warren Farrell states that men in the United States pay more into social security, but in total women receive more in benefits, and that discrimination against men in insurance and pensions have gone unrecognized.{{sfn|Farrell|1994|p=350}}
Men's rights groups argue that women are given superior social security and tax benefits than men.{{sfn|Flood|2007| p = [http://books.google.com/books?id=jh7y6ELc90YC&pg=PA430#v=onepage&q&f=false 430-433]}}<ref name="Honderich2005">{{cite book|author=Ferrell Christensen|editor=Ted Honderich|title=The Oxford companion to philosophy|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=F9oAomj2IIwC&pg=PA563|accessdate=10 December 2011|date=26 May 2005|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-926479-7|pages=562–63|chapter=Masculism}}</ref> Warren Farrell states that men in the United States pay more into social security, but in total women receive more in benefits, and that discrimination against men in insurance and pensions have gone unrecognized.{{sfn|Farrell|1994|p=350}}


==See also==
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*[[Feminism]]
*[[Men's studies]]
*[[Parental leave]]
*[[Paternal rights and abortion]]
*[[Sexism]]
*[[The Good Men Project]]


==Footnotes==
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==References==
* {{cite book | ref=harv | last = Ashe | first = F | year = 2007 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=nXDbiPA9IuQC | title = The New Politics of Masculinity: Men, Power and Resistance | publisher = [[Routledge]] | location= London |isbn= 978-0-415-30275-3 }}</ref>
* {{cite book | ref=harv |last = Farrell | first = W | title = The Myth of Male Power | year = 1994 | publisher = [[Berkley Books]] | isbn = 978-0-425-14381-0 }}
* {{cite book | ref=harv |last = Flood | first = M | authorlink = Michael Flood |title= International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities | year = 2007 |publisher= [[Taylor & Francis|Psychology Press]]  |location= London |isbn= 978-0-415-33343-6 | url=http://books.google.ca/books?id=jh7y6ELc90YC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false | coauthors = Gardiner JK; Pease B; Pringle K}}
* {{cite book | ref=harv | last = Goode | first = WJ | year = 1993 | title = World Changes in Divorce Patterns | publisher = [[Yale University Press]] | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=FAK64L2tpKAC | isbn = 0-300-05537-4 }}
* {{cite book | ref=harv | last = Messner | first = MA | year = 1997 | title = Politics of Masculinities: Men in Movements | location = Lanham | publisher = [[Rowman & Littlefield]] | url = http://books.google.ca/books?id=nG8MGcopgWQC | isbn = 0-8039-5577-4 }}
* {{cite book | ref=harv | last = Newton | first = J | title = From Panthers to Promise Keepers: rethinking the men's movement | year = 2004 | publisher = [[Rowman & Littlefield]] | location = Lanham, MD | isbn = 9780847691302 | url = http://books.google.ca/books?id=bXZkmNTSQUAC&printsec=frontcover }}
 
==Further reading==
* {{cite book | title = The Second Sexism: Discrimination Against Men and Boys | publisher = [[John Wiley & Sons]] | isbn= 0470674512 | year = 2012 | last = Benatar | first = D | authorlink = David Benatar }}
* {{cite book | title = Is There Anything Good About Men?: How Cultures Flourish by Exploiting Men | publisher = [[Oxford University Press]] | year = 2010 | last = Baumeister | first = RF | authorlink = Roy Baumeister | isbn = 019537410X }}
* {{cite book | title = Save the Males: Why Men Matter Why Women Should Care | year = 2008 | publisher = [[Random House#Digital Publishing Group|Random House Digital]] | isbn = 1400065798 | last = Parker | first = K | authorlink = Kathleen Parker}}
* {{cite book | title = Legalizing Misandry: From Public Shame to Systemic Discrimination Against Men | year = 2006 | isbn = 0773577890 | publisher = [[McGill-Queen's University Press]] | last = Nathanson | first = P | authorlink = Paul Nathanson | coauthors = Young KK }}
* {{cite book | title = Spreading Misandry: The Teaching of Contempt for Men in Popular Culture | year = 2001 |isbn =0773522727  | publisher = [[McGill-Queen's University Press]] | last = Nathanson | first = P | authorlink = Paul Nathanson | coauthors = Young KK }}
* {{cite book | title = The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men | year = 2001 | isbn = 0684849577 | publisher = [[Simon & Schuster]] | last = Summers | first = CH | authorlink = Christina Hoff Sommers }}


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The men's rights movement (MRM) is a human rights movement, part of the larger men's movement, focused specifically on issues of perceived discrimination and inequalities faced by men. It branched off from the men's liberation movement in the early 1970s, splitting into opposing pro- and antifeminist groups. The movement is made up of a variety of formal and informal groups that differ in their approaches and issues.

The MRM has been involved in a variety of issues related to law (including family law, parenting, reproduction and domestic violence), government services (including education, military service and social safety nets) health and female privilege.

History

The men's rights movement emerged from the men's liberation movement which appeared in the first half of the 1970s when some thinkers began to study feminist ideas and politics.[1]Template:Sfn The leaders of the men's liberation movement acknowledged men's institutional power while critically examining the costs of traditional masculinity.[1] In the late 1970s, the men's liberation movement split into two separate strands with opposing views: The pro-feminist men's movement and an anti-feminist men's rights movement.[1] Men's rights activists have since then rejected feminist principles and focused on disadvantages and oppression of men that they have identified.[1]Template:Sfn In the 1980s and 90s, men's rights activists opposed societal changes sought by feminists and defended the traditional gender order in the family, schools and the workplace.[2] Men's rights activists adopted the feminist rhetoric of "rights" and "equality" in their discourse, framing custody issues, for instance, as a matter of basic civil rights.[3][1][4][5] The plea for "equal rights for fathers" is frequently accompanied by a rhetoric of children's "needs" which helps deflect criticism that it is motivated by self-interest.[3]

The men's rights movement includes a wide variety of individuals and organizations, both united and divided in various ways on specific issues.[6] Some groups are formally organized or incorporated, while others are casual alliances or the work of a few individuals.[7]

One of the first major men's rights organizations was the Coalition of American Divorce Reform Elements, founded by Richard Doyle in 1971, from which the Men's Rights Association spun off in 1973.Template:Sfn[8] Free Men Inc. was founded in 1977 in Columbia, Maryland, spawning several chapters over the following years, which eventually merged to form the National Coalition of Free MenTemplate:Sfn (now known as the National Coalition for Men). Men's Rights, Inc. was also formed in 1977.[9]Template:Sfn Save Indian Family Foundation (SIFF) was founded in 2005 and in 2011 claimed to have approximately 4,000 registered members.[10]

Relation to feminism

The men's rights movement is considered to be a backlash or countermovement to feminism.[11][12][13][14][3] The men's rights movement consists of diverse points of view which reject feminist and profeminist ideas.Template:Sfn Men's rights activists believe that feminism has overshot its objective and harmed men.[11][15][1] They dispute that men as a group have institutional power and privilege[16]Template:Sfn and believe that men are victimized and disadvantaged relative to women.[17]Template:Sfn[1]Template:Sfn

Men's rights activists see men as an oppressed group[11][18][19][20] and believe that society and state have been "feminized" by the women's movement.[11] Warren Farrell and Herb Goldberg, for instance, believe that all men are disadvantaged, discriminated against and oppressed and argue that power is an illusion for most men since women are the actual bearers of power.[11] Men's rights groups generally reject the notion that feminism is interested in men's problemsTemplate:Sfn and men's rights activists have viewed the women's movement as a plot to conceal discrimination against men.[1][21]Template:Sfn

Adoption

Fathers' rights activists seek a gender-neutral approach in which unwed men and women would have equal rights in adoption issues.[22]

Anti-dowry laws

Men's rights organizations such as Save Indian Family Foundation (SIFF) state that men are subject to dowry harassment when women misuse legislation meant to protect them from dowry death and bride burnings.[10] SIFF is one of the many men's rights organizations in India that focus on the perceived abuse of anti-dowry laws against men.[23] SIFF has stated that they feel that anti-dowry laws have regularly been used in efforts to settle petty disputes in marriage,[24] and that their helplines receive calls from many men who say that their wives have used false dowry claims to get them jailed.[25]

Child custody

Family law is an area of deep concern among men's rights groups. These issues vary from state to state and country to country. In India, father's rights have been a concern since 2000.[10] Many men feel that they are discriminated against and that they do not have the same contact rights or equitable shared parenting rights as their ex-spouse.Template:Sfn[26] The United Kingdom and United States were cited, with several other unnamed countries, as affected regions where child custody issues have become complicated by higher divorce rates, less father-child time, while there has been greater expectations for fatherly involvement in their children's lives. Authors of Unfamiliar territory write, "The current struggles of the fathers' rights movement can be understood as part of this complex and painful renegotiation of intimate relations against a backdrop of changing lifestyles and expectations."[26] Father's rights activists seek to change the legal climate for men through changes in family law.Template:Sfn See Fathers' rights movement by country for more information about custody concerns.

Men's rights activists state that the divorce rate in India has sharply risen from less than 5% in 2000, which has over-burdened the Indian court system's abilities to keep pace with the number of child custody cases. They argue that men have been parted from their children, with some only allowed to visit their children at the court once a month for 30 minutes during the to several years that it can take to resolve the custody case. To provide support services to men for shared parenting rights and father's rights, SIFF created several non-governmental organizations (NGOs).[10]

In the United States, fathers accounted for 17.4 percent custodial parents in 2007, a percentage that has statistically not changed since 1994.[27]

In Israel, the Man's Rights in the Family Party is headed by Yaakov Schlusser, who argues that custody should automatically be given to fathers before being examined by courts. He claims that children who see "a woman in control, in contradiction to nature, may turn homosexual."[28]

Divorce

Men's rights groups in the United States began organizing in opposition of divorce reform and custody issues around the 1960s. The men involved in the early organization claimed that family and divorce law discriminated against them and favored their wives.Template:Sfn Rich Doyle wrote of the view of the men's rights movement concerning the court handling of divorces and child custody processes:

Divorce courts are frequently like slaughter-houses, with about as much compassion and talent. They function as collection agencies for lawyer fees, however outrageous, stealing children and extorting money from men in ways blatantly unconstitutional... Men are regarded as mere guests in their own homes, evictable any time at the whims of wives and judges. Men are driven from home and children against their wills; then when unable to stretch paychecks far enough to support two households are termed "runaway fathers." Contrary to all principles of justice, men are thrown into prison for inability to pay alimony and support, however unreasonable or unfair the "obligation."Template:Sfn

Laws and practices regarding spousal support, maintenance or alimony vary considerably by country and culture. On one end of the spectrum are Nordic countries, like Sweden, that by 1978 assumed that divorced spouses were not responsible for one another. Support might be provided for a transitionary period for the lower-wage earner or primarily care-givers, but only in about 6-8% of the cases and only for a limited time. In most western countries alimony is provided on an ever decreasing basis due to shorter marriages and women more likely to be wage-earners.Template:Sfn Italy and many countries in Latin America, are on the other end. Women may be supported during legal separation, which is a state in which they wish to remain because of low chance of remarriage, religious reasons or to retain inheritance rights to their husband's property. Such women may be wives to husbands of privileged class. However, the rate of support is declining in Italy, as well.Template:Sfn

Although the rate of payments of spousal support is declining, both due to the reduced rates at which alimony is granted and low rates at which alimony is generally paid, there are concerns regarding men's rights when women continue to receive support after they enter into new relationships and women are supported by men who are "financially strapped".Template:Sfn In the United States, the current alimony laws are challenged for constitutionality, assignment of temporary vs. permanent financial support paid to a spouse, and fair and equitable treatment under family law; There are several men's rights attempts to reform alimony at a state and federal level, including Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina (U.S. state), Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee.[29]

Now that women make up a large percentage of the workforce, existing laws regarding alimony in the United States have come into question.[29] A legal precedent for gender-blind spousal support, granting men's rights to alimony, in the United States was made in Orr v. Orr,[30] where the Supreme Court invalidated Alabama's statutes by which husbands, but not wives, were required to pay alimony upon divorce. This statute was considered a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. The percentage of alimony recipients in the US who were male rose from 2.4% in (1996–2001) to 3.6% in (2002–2006) and is expected to increase as more marriages feature a female primary earner.[31]

Domestic violence

Men's rights activists, citing a number of academic studies, assert that domestic violence by women is ignored and under-reported,[32][33] because men are reluctant to describe themselves as victims.[33] They state that women are as aggressive or more aggressive than men in relationships,[34] that domestic violence is sex-symmetrical,[35][36] and that judicial systems too easily accept false allegations of domestic violence by women against their male partners.[37] Men's rights writer Christina Hoff Sommers has commented that "false claims about male domestic violence are ubiquitous and immune to refutation."[38] Men's rights advocates have been critics of legal, policy and practical protections for abused women,[39][36][40] campaigning for domestic violence shelters for battered men[32][33] and for the legal system to be educated about women's violence against men.[32]

Some academic critics have rejected the research cited by Men's rights activists and dispute their claims that such violence is gender symmetrical,[41][34][42][1][43][44] arguing that the focus on women's violence stems from a political agenda to minimize the issue of men's violence against women[41] and to undermine services to abused women.[34][43] Donileen Loseke, Mary Cavanaugh and Richard Gelles cite as an example the challenge to the Minnesota Battered Woman's Act by the Men's Defense Association claiming that it was discriminatory because it protected women but not men.[36]

Education

Men's rights activists describe the education of boys as being in crisis, with boys having reduced educational achievement and motivation as compared to girls.[45] Advocates blame the influence of feminism on education for discrimination against and systematic oppression of boys in the education system.[46] They critique what they describe as the "feminization" of education, stating that the predominance of female teachers, a focus on girls' needs as well as a curricula and assessment methods that favour girls have proved repressive and restrictive to men and boys.[45][47]

Men's rights groups call for increased recognition of masculinity, greater numbers of male role models, more competitive sports, and the increased responsibilities for boys in the school setting. They have also advocated clearer school routines, more traditional school structures, including single-sex classes, and stricter discipline.[47]

Critics suggest that men's rights groups view boys as a homogeneous group sharing common experiences of schooling and that they do not take sufficient account in their analysis of how responses to educational approaches may differ by age, culture, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, and class.[47]

In Australia, men's rights discourse has influenced government policy documents; less impact has been noted in the United Kingdom, where feminists have historically had less influence on educational policy.[46]

Rape

Men's rights activists are concerned with false accusations of rape and sexual assault[48] and desire to protect men from the negative consequences of false accusations.[49] They assert that the naming of the accused while providing the accuser with anonymity encourages abuse.[50]Template:Sfn[51]

Men's rights activists in the United Kingdom, the United States and India have opposed legislation criminalizing marital rape.[36][52][53][54] The reasons for opposition include concerns about false allegations related to divorce proceedings,[55]Template:Sfn[56] and in India anxiety about relationships[57] and the future of marriage as such laws give women "grossly disproportional rights".[53] Virag Dhulia of the Save Indian Family Foundation, a men's rights organization, has opposed recent efforts to criminalize marital rape in India, arguing that "no relationship will work if these rules are enforced."[57]

Female privilege

The men's rights movement asserts that males no longer hold male privilege to the exclusion of females, with two variations: those who argue that sexism harms men and women equally as both genders have different privileges, and those who believe that female privilege has become the norm to the detriment of men.[58]

Governmental structures

Men's rights groups have called for male-focused governmental structures to address issues specific to men and boys including education, health, work and marriage.[59][60][61] Men's rights groups in India have called for the creation of a Men's Welfare Ministry and a National Commission for Men, as well as the abolition of the National Commission for Women.[59][62][63] In the United Kingdom, the creation of a Minister for Men analogous to the existing Minister for Women, have been proposed by David Amess, MP and Lord Northbourne, but were rejected by the government of Tony Blair.[60][64][65] In the United States, Warren Farrell heads a commission focused on the creation of a "White House Council on Boys and Men" as a counterpart to the "White House Council on Women and Girls" which was formed in March 2009.[45][61]

Health

Men's rights activists view the health issues faced by men and their shorter life spans as compared to women as evidence of discrimination and oppression.Template:Sfn[66] They state that feminism has led to women's health issues being privileged at the expense of men's.[67] They point to higher suicide rates in men compared to women,[66] and complain about the funding of men's health issues as compared to women's, including noting that prostate cancer research receives less funding than breast-cancer research.[66][68] David Benatar has suggested more money should be put into health research on males in order to reduce the disparity between men's and women's life expectancy.[69] Some doctors and academics have argued circumcision is a violation of men's right to health and bodily integrity,[70][71][72][73] while others have disagreed.[74][75][76][77]

Many academics have critiqued these claims,[66][41]Template:Sfn stating, as Michael Messner puts it, that the poorer health outcomes are the heavy costs paid by men "for conformity with the narrow definitions of masculinity that promise to bring them status and privilege"Template:Sfn and that these costs fall disproportionately on men who are marginalized socially and economically.Template:Sfn In this view, and according to Michael Flood, men's health would best be improved by "tackling destructive notions of manhood, an economic system which values profit and productivity over workers’ health, and the ignorance of service providers" instead of blaming a feminist health movement.[41]

Military conscription

Men's rights activists have argued that military conscription of men is an example of oppression of men.Template:Sfn[78]

In 1971 in the United States, draft resisters initiated a class-action suit alleging that male-only conscription violated men's rights to equal protection under the US constitution.[79][80] When the case, Rostker v. Goldberg, reached the Supreme Court in 1981, they were supported by a men's rights group and multiple women's groups, including the National Organization for Women.[79] However, the Supreme Court upheld the Military Selective Service Act, stating that "the argument for registering women was based on considerations of equity, but Congress was entitled, in the exercise of its constitutional powers, to focus on the question of military need, rather than equity.[80][81]

Parental abduction

Men's rights activists state that children of men of Indian descent have been abducted from their homes in Canada, the United States and Europe, and moved to India where the national courts do not recognize foreign child custody orders. The country is not subject to the Hague Convention and men accused of dowry harassment may be arrested at Indian airports.[10]

Parental leave

There is wide variance in parental leave provisions across 24 western countries, which are primarily European countries, Australia, Canada and the United States. The most liberal allows the couple to choose how to split the family leave time between mother and father. In the countries where parental leave is available and defined, it is generally for 2 to 12 days. Where maternal leave is available and defined, all but the United States and Australia, the period of time is generally 14–20 weeks, but four countries have extended leave periods.[82]

Paternity fraud

Men's and fathers' rights groups have stated that there are high levels of misattributed paternity or "paternity fraud", where men are parenting and/or supporting financially children who are not biologically their own.[83] They hold biological views of fatherhood, emphasizing the imperative of the genetic foundation of paternity rather than social aspects of fatherhood.[84][83] They state that men should not be forced to support children fathered by another man,[85] and that men are harmed because a relationship is created between a man and non-biological children while denying the children and their biological father of that experience and knowledge of their genetic history. In addition, non-biological fathers are denied the resources to have their own biological children in another relationship.[83] Men's rights activists support the use of paternity testing to reassure presumed fathers about the child's paternity;[85] men's and fathers' rights groups have called for compulsory paternity testing of all children.[86][83][87] They have campaigned vigorously in support of men who have been shown by genetic testing not to be the biological father, but who are nevertheless required to be financially responsible for them.[84] Prompted by these concerns, legislators in certain jurisdictions have supported this biological view and have passed laws providing relief from child support payments when a man is proved not to be the father.[84][83] Australian men's rights groups have opposed the recommendations of a report by the Australian Law Reform Commission and the National Health and Medical Research Council that would require the consent of both parents for paternity testing of young children,[85] and laws that would make it illegal to obtain a sample for DNA testing without the individual's consent.[88] Sociologist Michael Gilding asserts that men's rights activists have exaggerated the rate and extent of misattributed paternity, which he estimates at about 1-3%.[89][86] He opposed as unnecessary calls for mandatory paternity testing of all children.[86]

Reproductive rights

In the US in 2006, the court case Dubay v. Wells concerned whether men should have an opportunity to decline all paternity rights and responsibilities in the event of an unplanned pregnancy. Supporters said that this would allow the woman time to make an informed decision and give men the same reproductive rights as women.[90] In its dismissal of the case, the U.S. Court of Appeals (Sixth Circuit) stated that:

"Dubay’s claim that a man’s right to disclaim fatherhood would be analogous to a woman’s right to abortion rests upon a false analogy. In the case of a father seeking to opt out of fatherhood and thereby avoid child support obligations, the child is already in existence and the state therefore has an important interest in providing for his or her support."[91]

Social security and insurance

Men's rights groups argue that women are given superior social security and tax benefits than men.Template:Sfn[92] Warren Farrell states that men in the United States pay more into social security, but in total women receive more in benefits, and that discrimination against men in insurance and pensions have gone unrecognized.Template:Sfn

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Footnotes

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