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Justice for Men & Boys 
It may be unfair on the author because I don’t know what she intended the book’s title to convey but I am sensitive to the use of the word ‘privilege’ and have an immediate negative reaction to its use in the context of alleged advantages and disadvantage of different groups on society. A privilege is something, special and beyond the norm yet it is almost invariably used to describe something that either is or should be the normal baseline expectation or is an inevitable logical consequence of the situation concerned. Examples of alleged white ‘privilige’ either consist of things that everybody should be able to expect, for example not being harrassed without good reason by security when shopping, or things that are inevitable based on statistics and probability, for example in a white majority country being generally in situations where most people are white.
In this context everybody in fact has or at least did have two parents initially. It used to be the norm to be brought up by two parents and this should be what most children experience. Having two parents should not be seen as a privilege but rather having one as unfortunate and a disadvantage.
The author may have chosen the title to shock by suggesting having two parents was becoming exceptional and therefore a privilege but I doubt it.
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