Male attitudes toward marriage

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Men have a variety of attitudes toward marriage. Recently, some commentators have described a social phenomenon they call a "marriage strike" that consists of men in the Western world seeking to avoid marriage.

Advocates of the "marriage strike" argue that women often reap financial windfalls after divorce and that men should avoid this risk through avoiding marriage altogether. Such advocacy holds that marriage poses absolutely no benefit to a man whatsoever, in that that traditional positive benefits of consortium, security and custody have been entirely revamped and eclipsed by reforms to original marriage laws; meanwhile likewise, advocates hold that these and other societal, legal, and other reforms, now afford equal or greater such benefits to non-married persons, in addition to of the benefits of remaining unmarried. In the Western world, family law is structurally more likely to award child custody to a child's mother in the case of divorce ^[1]^[2]. This legal situation results in fathers often having very limited access to their children after divorce.