They try desperately to be good husbands and fathers. Unemployment and divorce are the specters that haunt them on a day to day basis. While mothers are applauded for 'holding down a career and a family', men are castigated for neglecting their roles and are finding it impossible to be good fathers. They simply do not have the time. What is worse is that men are entirely unsupported and suffer in isolation.
Many men now grow up without even knowing their fathers.
Those that do, often have unsatisfactory or negative relationships with them. The very knowledge, the masculine identity of manhood, is not being passed on to the next generation. The heavy demands of work and family life and their inability to devote time to their personal lives had led to chronic health problems, and high suicide rates. Men have much higher mortality rates than women for all main causes of death. Their levels of heart disease, alcoholism and obesity are higher.