A 'marriage strike' is the social phenomenon of men seeking to avoid marriage. The 'marriage strike' specifically refers to the action of men living within the Western world. Advocates of the marriage strike believe that after a considered cost-benefit analysis, the legal contract that is modern marriage no longer represents an attractive option for men living in the West's changed legal, economic, sociological, cultural and demographic environment. Image File history File links Unbalanced_scales. ... For other uses, see Phenomena (disambiguation). ... The term Western world, the West or the Occident (Latin occidens -sunset, -west, as distinct from the Orient) [1] can have multiple meanings dependent on its context (e. ... Cost-benefit analysis is an important technique for project appraisal: the process of weighing the total expected costs against the total expected benefits of one or more actions in order to choose the best or most profitable option. ... This article is about law in society. ... A contract is a legally binding exchange of promises or agreement between parties that the law will enforce. ... A compass rose with west highlighted This article refers to the cardinal direction; for other uses see West (disambiguation). ... This article is about law in society. ... Economics (deriving from the Greek words οίκω [okos], house, and νέμω [nemo], rules hence household management) is the social science that studies the allocation of scarce resources to satisfy unlimited wants. ... Sociology is the study of the social lives of humans, groups and societies. ... The word culture, from the Latin colo, -ere, with its root meaning to cultivate, generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activity significance. ... A demographic or demographic profile is a term used in marketing and broadcasting, to describe a demographic grouping or a market segment. ...

Introduction

Advocates of the marriage strike hold that through the combination of laws permitting no-fault divorce and prevailing conditions in divorce courts that are substantially more likely to favor the wife over the husband in disputes over child custody, visitation rights, ownership of the family residence and other shared property, child support, and alimony. It is possible for a woman to divorce her husband unilaterally while simultaneously depriving him of the right to see his offspring and financially crippling him. They argue that since the divorce rate is high, and since women are more likely than men to seek no-fault divorce, scenarios like the above are a likely outcome of marriage, and that many men, fearing such an outcome, choose not to marry. There have been numerous studies showing that a range of 60 to 93 percent of no-fault divorces in the United States were initiated by women, usually against a man who works a blue-collar job, for grounds cited as "emotional unfulfillment." Child custody and guardianship are legal terms which are sometimes used to describe the legal and practical relationship between a parent and his or her child, such as the right of the parent to make decisions for the child, and the parents duty to care for the child. ... In many countries, child support or child maintenance is the ongoing obligation for a periodic payment made by a non-custodial parent to a custodial parent, caregiver or guardian, for the care and support of children of a relationship or marriage that has been terminated. ... Alimony, maintenance or spousal support is an obligation established by law in many countries that is based on the premise that both spouses have an absolute obligation to support each other during the marriage (or civil union) unless they are legally separated. ... No-fault divorce is the dissolution of a marriage, upon petition to the court by either party, without the requirement that the petitioner show fault on the part of the other party. ... A blue-collar worker is a working class employee who performs manual or technical labor, such as in a factory or in technical maintenance trades, in contrast to a white-collar worker, who does non-manual work generally at a desk. ... Look up Fulfillment in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Legal Causations of Emerging Western Marriage Strike

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Divorce Penalty

Marriage, while being publicly understood as a union between man and woman, is also a legal contract. On divorce, the deems that a legal contract is considered broken, and legal consequences come into effect. There is a dissolution of the previously shared financial assets of the married couple. Assets are divided for distribution to both parties by a court ruling. Typically, a woman will receive 50% ownership of the couple's assets on initiation of divorce. These assets include property, housing, vehicles, savings, and investments. Union generally refers to two or more things joined into one, such as an organization of multiple people or organizations, multiple objects combined into one, and so on. ... This article is about law in society. ... A contract is a legally binding exchange of promises or agreement between parties that the law will enforce. ... This article is about law in society. ... Consequences is an old parlour game similar to the surrealist game exquisite corpse. ... Dissolution or dissolvetiyny can have the following meanings: Dissolve (song), a song on Gusters album Parachute to crumble into a liquid. ... In business and accounting an asset is anything owned, whether in possession or by right to take possession, by a person or a group acting together, e. ... Look up distribution in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see House (disambiguation). ... Vehicles are non-living means of transport. ... In common usage, saving generally means putting money aside, for example, by putting money in the bank or investing in a pension plan. ... Investment is a term with several closely related meanings in finance and economics. ...

No-fault divorce

No-fault divorce is divorce in which the dissolution of a marriage does not require fault of either party to be shown, or, indeed, any evidentiary proceedings at all. It occurs on petition to the court, typically a family court by either party, without the requirement that the petitioner show fault on the part of the other party. Either party may request, and receive, the dissolution of the marriage, despite the objections of the other party. No-fault divorce is the dissolution of a marriage, upon petition to the court by either party, without the requirement that the petitioner show fault on the part of the other party. ...

Divorce and Children

In the Western world, family law is structurally more likely to award child custody to a child's mother in the case of divorce. This legal situation results in fathers often having very limited access to their children after divorce. In an attempt to balance the rights and needs of the mother, father, and children, courts may award a couple joint custody of their children after divorce. Child custody and guardianship are legal terms which are sometimes used to describe the legal and practical relationship between a parent and his or her child, such as the right of the parent to make decisions for the child, and the parents duty to care for the child. ... The term Western world, the West or the Occident (Latin occidens -sunset, -west, as distinct from the Orient) [1] can have multiple meanings dependent on its context (e. ... Child custody and guardianship are legal terms which are sometimes used to describe the legal and practical relationship between a parent and his or her child, such as the right of the parent to make decisions for the child, and the parents duty to care for the child. ... For the direction right, see left and right or starboard. ... Needs refer to things that people must have. ... Joint custody is a court order whereby custody of a child is a awarded to both parties. ...

Male Alternatives to Marriage

Cohabitation Without Marriage

Proponents of the marriage strike advise that men should simply cohabit (live with a girlfriend), and not actually marry. Living with a girlfriend presents a legally safer alternative, with marriage's benefits to men, with a reduction in the penalties found within marriage. This article is about a living arrangement. ... This article is about a living arrangement. ... This article is about law in society. ...

De-facto Law:

However, it should be noted that family law can also be applied in some Western nations (eg, Australia) and other nations (eg Brazil) to de-facto relationships such as these. After a certain length of time, the breakup of a non-marriage, live-in relationship can legally result in a man losing his assets to his 'de-facto wife', as considered by the law. Family Law was a television drama starring Kathleen Quinlan as a divorced lawyer who attempted to start her own law firm after her lawyer husband took all their old clients. ... Look up De facto in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Pre-nuptial Agreement

A prenuptial agreement, commonly abbreviated to 'prenup', is a contract entered into by two people prior to marriage. The content of a prenuptial agreement can vary widely, but commonly includes provisions for the division of property should the couple divorce and any rights to spousal support during or after the dissolution of marriage. A prenuptial agreement, commonly abbreviated to prenup, is a contract entered into by two people prior to marriage or civil union. ...

Prenuptial agreements are not always fully recognized by law in case of divorce. Prenuptial agreements are, at best, a partial solution to obviating some of the risks of marital property disputes in times of divorce. They are not the final word.

See Also

• Alimony
• Bachelor
• Child support
• Families Need Fathers
• Family law
• Fathers' rights
• Involuntary celibacy
• Masculism
• Misandry
• Palimony

Alimony, maintenance or spousal support is an obligation established by law in many countries that is based on the premise that both spouses have an absolute obligation to support each other during the marriage (or civil union) unless they are legally separated. ... A bachelor is a man above the age of majority who has never been married (see single). ... In many countries, child support or child maintenance is the ongoing obligation for a periodic payment made by a non-custodial parent to a custodial parent, caregiver or guardian, for the care and support of children of a relationship or marriage that has been terminated. ... Families Need Fathers (FNF) is a registered UK charity, founded in 1974. ... Family Law was a television drama starring Kathleen Quinlan as a divorced lawyer who attempted to start her own law firm after her lawyer husband took all their old clients. ... The Fathers rights movement can be seen as part of the mens movement and/or the parents movement, it emerged in the 1970s as a loose social movement providing a network of interest groups, primarily in western countries. ... Involuntary celibacy is the state of a person who has not established an intimate relationship or engage in sexual intercourse for reasons other than voluntary celibacy or sexual abstinence. ... Masculism (also referred to as masculinism) consists of social theories, political movements, and moral philosophies primarily based on the experiences of men. ... Look up Misandry in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Palimony is a slang term coined by attorney Marvin Mitchelson in 1977 when his client Michelle Marvin (the former Michelle Triola) filed an unsuccessful suit against actor Lee Marvin. ...

Research

• US National Center for Health Statistics: Divorce rate in 2003 was 50% of the marriage rate
• 15% of men are awarded custody, unchanged since 1994 (see p. 1).
• As a matter of routine in family court, fathers are awarded four days a month visitation to see their children.
• Annual support payments increase 18% to $40 billion paid by 7.8 million separated parents, 6.6 million are fathers
• Up to $4.1 billion available to states that create support and arrearage orders, and then collect (see 6B, 6C, & 6D).
• Divorced/separated men commit suicide 400% more than women (see # 5, 15).

A family court is a court convened in the UK to make orders in respect of childrens residence. ... Visitation can mean several things: In the United States, visitation is the legal term for the right of a non-custodial parent to visit with their children: see contact. ...

Further Reading

• Dump Your Wife NOW! Blog - A blog united with the men's movement. Thought provoking original articles on men's liberation, masculism, as well as articles taking aim at radical feminism and the marriage strike.
• No Marriage - A case study against marriage to an American woman
• Why Men Won't Commit: Exploring Young Men's Attitudes About Sex, Dating and Marriage by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead PhD and David Popenoe PhD
• The Marriage No-Shows by Carey Roberts
• Have Anti-Father Family Court Policies Led to a Men's Marriage Strike? By Glenn Sacks and Dianna Thompson
• Women Lose When Feminists Bash by Carey Roberts
• The Marriage Strike by Wendy McElroy
• Lysistrata Complete text of the play Lysistrata by Aristophanes
• Eternal Bachelor blog - The thoughts and musings of a man who has cheated a woman out of a divorce settlement.
• Stay Single, Young Man! - by Vox Day.
• Don't Make Her Mad - Thwart the false pretext of a divorce (domestic violence/fear thereof) via surveillance of the false allegation.