Some of the most popular articles on MensRights.com deal with the facts and figures of discrimination against men and fathers that are so often overlooked by society and mainstream media.

This list of fathers rights facts is provided by the Father's Rights Council of Georgia, an organization dedicated to helping fathers learn their rights, use their rights, and build productive unhindered relationships with their children.

Marriage does not define a father's rights. Unwed fathers have rights, too; they just need to exercise those rights.

Recent news about Utah fathers rights indicated the state has made the process easier for fathers to exercise their rights. This has brought to light the fact that unwed fathers in other states still experience difficulty in protecting their rights. Other steps are required in addition to fathers filing with the state's putative father registry.

Since launching in February 2011, MensRights.com has striven to inform males of the issues posing a serious threat to men's rights, primarily focusing on the family law arena.

When the general public thinks of discrimination, typically men are not a group at the forefront. But any man or father who has been inside a family law courtroom will tell you about the prejudice they faced against dads rights.

Our articles on men's rights try to call attention to these injustices men encounter on a daily basis. We also maintain an active Facebook page and Twitter account, so please follow us on those sites as well for additional articles, interviews, and resources.

Of the roughly 100 articles added over the past 10 months, here are the 11 most read men's rights articles in 2011.

Marriage rates have reached an all-time low meaning more children are being born out of wedlock. This issue of paternity is one of the more complex areas of family law.

Many men are curious about what an unwed father's legal responsibilities are to a child born outside of a marriage. Will he automatically have to pay child support? Is he the legal father of the child?

New child support facts show that $35.1 billion in child support was owed in 2009 with fathers representing only 17.8 percent of custodial parents.

Of the 11.2 million custodial mothers, almost 55 percent were awarded child support.

Yet of the less than 2.5 million custodial fathers in 2009, only 30.4 percent were awarded child support. That is significantly down from 2007 when 40.4 percent of custodial dads were awarded child support.

The latest report of child support facts is from 2009, the most recent data available according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Read 10 more facts about child support and fathers rights:

A previous men's rights article discussed a lawsuit filed on behalf of fathers rights after a welfare agency placed children in foster care rather than let them live with their fathers.

Both dads were active, involved fathers who shared child custody with the children's mother. They argued their children should have immediately been sent to live with them after they were removed from their mothers' care because of neglect.

Judith Sandalow, executive director of the Children's Law Center, filed the lawsuit on behalf of the dads whose rights were ignored.

Sandalow (pictured) discussed the lawsuit and the work being done at Children's Law Center with MensRights.com editor Matt Allen.

When Denmark passed legislation making equal child custody the default custodial arrangement, it was met with expected controversy and hostility toward men's rights.

Four years later, a study shows that presumed 50-50 child custody arrangements can work with the help of motivated parents, proving this model could exist in the U.S.

The Parental Responsibility Act created the "7/7" solution where children spend alternating weeks with each parent. This is the standard arrangement enforced by the government unless parents agree to a different custody schedule.

The Danish National Centre for Social Research issued a report saying presumed 50-50 custody can work well with co-parenting cooperation in order to provide continuity to a child's life.

Two dads have filed lawsuits claiming their fathers rights were violated when a child welfare agency put their children in foster care rather than let the kids live with their fathers after the children were removed from their mothers’ care because of neglect.

After the Washington D.C. Child and Family Services Agency (CFSA) removed the children and placed them in foster care, Sam Wilson and Andre Adgerson – who both had joint custody - had to fight for months in order to have their parental rights to their children recognized, according to the Washington Post.

Both dads were active, involved fathers who shared child custody with the children's mother. They argued their children should have immediately been put in their care once their mothers were found neglectful.

But, as frequently happens with dads rights, their parental rights were ignored.

This is the first in a series of articles highlighting men's rights organizations.

Fathers and Families improves the lives of children and strengthens society by protecting the child's right to the love and care of both parents after separation or divorce.

We seek better lives for children through family court reform that establishes equal rights and responsibilities for fathers and mothers.

Decades of research show beyond doubt that children do better when two biological parents raise them. But divorce, separation and out-of-wedlock childbearing tend to separate children from their father. 

So Fathers and Families seeks to change family law to keep both parents in children's lives to the greatest extent possible.

"Profiling of different groups based on skin color, age, disabilities, etc., is not permissible. We regard these generalizations as being deplorable in virtually every sphere of civil rights, but for some reason these generalizations and assumptions are permissible as they pertain to men in domestic scenarios."

That quote comes from MensRights.com founder Joseph Cordell's latest Huffington Post column, "Divorce Civil Rights."

Cordell says there are millions of men and fathers who find themselves in family law courtrooms across America feeling as though they are in the dark corner of the room.