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== Men's Rights Organizations ==
* -- Largest member supported shared parenting organization in the nation
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* Help and support for those falsely accused of abuse in family court.
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* - Information network of all parents/childrens/fathers/mothers rights groups focusing upon coordination of events in the USA.
* - The original 50/50 parenting organization based in Florida.
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* - insightful writings on divorce industry's effects on father's rights
* - writings on divorce industry's effects on father's rights and human behavior
* -- Cultural and legislative efforts to reduce divorce
* -- Collection of pro-family articles aimed legal community
* "Our kids have rights too -- and their most important right is: To be with your Mom & Dad"
* "Supporting cultural and legislative efforts to reduce divorce"
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* "In search of fatherhood"
* "Nationally-focused public policy organization ...barriers faced by never-married, low-income fathers and their families."
* "Works to assure children meaningful and continuing contact with both their parents and extended family regardless of the parents' marital status."
* "Pro-active fathers who assert their interests in the reform of the legal, economic, and sociological aspects of Family Law"
* "We must now grant to fathers the same right to be in family as we have granted women in the workplace."
* "Citizens from all walks of life working to Restore due process, Reverse the loss of our civil liberties."
* "Citizens from all walks of life working to Restore due process, Reverse the loss of our civil liberties."
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* "Developer of the Cost Shares model of child support guidelines."
* "Disorder that arises almost exclusively in the context of child-custody disputes. Its primary manifestation is the child’s campaign of denigration against a parent."
* "Defender of the American Male"
* "Provide grants to States to encourage media campaigns to promote responsible fatherhood skills, and for other purposes."
* "Fifty State Class Action Lawsuit for Non Custodial Parents Constitutional Rights "
* "There is a conversation going on. A Conversation About Fatherhood."
* "Civil rights movement campaigning for a child's right to see both parents."
* "End the rampant and pervasive judicial corruption in the legal system."
* "Children's rights and their protection from abuse"
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* - Free information about divorce.
* On-line Magazine of TheMensCenter.com"
* "Men's voices magazine"
* "The Men's Activism News Network"
* "An Injustice To One Man Threatens Justice To All Men Equally"
* Leadership conference
* "The Male Affirmative Resource Center"
* "Subverting the Mainstream Media"
* "A bridge for building better families in the community."
* "Helping courts anticipate change and better serve the public."
* "To free men and boys from the limitations of sex discrimination."
* "Involved Responsible Commited"
* "The President is determined to make committed, responsible fatherhood a national priority... "
* Fatherhood Project Participant Management Information System
* "Enforcing federal statutes prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, sex, handicap, religion, and national origin"
* "For the man with kids"
* "...the home for individualist feminism on the net"
* "Conservative news and information"
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Men's rights began as a recognisable movement in the 1980s, largely in response to the women's rights or feminist movement. It aims to address issues of concern to men and to remove institutional and societal discrimination against males.

Those in the men's rights movement often do not consider themselves to be masculist, and quite often do not subscribe to a recognisable orthodoxy or gender ideology. One conventional strand of opinion recognises the need for parity between people irrespective of their gender. To achieve this inevitably requires some measures that improve the position of men. This can lead to the mistaken perception that such measures are anti-women.

Amongst men's rights advocates there are a number of women, including those in significant positions in the movement. For example, Sue Price in the Men's Rights Agency has been at the forefront of activism to eliminate discrimination against men in Australia. Men's rights advocates are not a uniform group: they include both singularly religious and atheistic individuals, as well as those from the left and right of politics. Most supporters of men's rights are from western nations, where gender equity has for some time been advocated mainly from a woman's perspective. At present the main engine for change for men's rights derives from men's role as fathers.

Some typical discrimination against men which the men's rights movement has identified are:

In the US, high rates of circumcision by the medical profession continue in many areas. Many circumcised men are subjects of victim blaming by those who strive to maintain the status quo concerning alteration of male genitalia.

The men's rights movement has grown and changed in character since the 1980s. Just as the women's rights movement was small and lacked political power during its early beginnings in the 1800s, so the much younger men's rights movement is small and lacking in significant organisation or influence.

See also: Fathers' rights, Marriage strike, Shared parenting

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Men's Rights Organizations

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