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This may be the reason Clint believes he does 50 percent of the child care. He counts it as child care if he’s doing one thing and the kids are doing another, so long as they’re safe. Whereas Angie feels obliged to immerse herself completely in their world. And Angie herself is complicit, to some degree, in this increase in her workload. Before leaving for the hospital, she fretted about the relative state of disorder she’d left for Clint.
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She should drop this. Also have a feeling that she is doing more. She’s still probably the default parent, sounds like especially at night.
All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
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