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In reply to the discussion: What fueled right wingers, fathers rights, mens' rights, gun rights & teabaggers into existence? [View all]Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)males, and the fathers' rights issue is primarily an angry white male issue.
While personally you might not like the fact that he has identified the fathers' rights movement as having been motivated by the anti-woman themes of the entitled, angry white male (the preponderance of whom are right wing). Chapter 3 looks at the (angry) men's rights groups, and Chapter 4 is dedicated to the (also angry) fathers' rights. The book examines the history of white American fathers with regard to child caring, child rearing, and child financing responsibilities from the past through to the present, and the issue of divorce and children, identifies the allegations and the underlying reasons for these angry groups, and attempts to arrive at what is the truth and what is the fiction of the fathers' rights anger groups' claims. It's quite interesting.
The book is excellent and well researched, and put together by a male, an expert on men's studies - his field.
Irrespective of what anyone's personal feelings might be on the matter, the title of the OP reflects what the book examines.
And by the way, he discusses black men, and why the mens' rights and fathers' rights groups are primarily angry white male groups and cannot be confused with black groups which focus on improving the fatherly relationship within the family, which are directed at exactly that - improving the fatherly relationship with the kids.