Men’s Rights Issues

Print 🖨 PDF 📄 By Marc E. Angelucci, Esq., NCFM Vice President (RIP) “Discrimination itself, by perpetuating ‘archaic and stereotypic notions’ . . . can cause serious noneconomic injuries to those persons who are personally denied equal treatment….”  United States Supreme Court in Heckler v. Mathews, 465 U.S. 728, 739-740 (1984). INTRODUCTION NCFM was formed in 1977 to address men’s issues. Since that time, a men’s rights movement has been steadily growing globally to address men’s rights that have been seriously neglected in laws and public policies worldwide. Men have been systematically discriminated against in parenting rights, child custody, criminal sentencing, military conscription, education, domestic and sexual violence laws that neglect male victims and support false accusations, reproductive rights, genital integrity laws, international forced labor laws, public benefits and more, while men and boys face societal misandry and male bashing. Men make 80-99% of homeless adults, job deaths and injuries, incarcerated persons, combat deaths, dropouts, and suicide deaths (“attempted” suicide rates are unreliable because it is unlikely men report failed suicides as often as women do). Men also die younger than women and have higher mortality rates for 13 of the 15 leading causes of death. But instead of hearing … Continue reading Men’s Rights Issues