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How pregnancy can reveal invisible labor imbalances

I'm pregnant with my third child and my husband acts like I should be grateful for his help with basic parenting tasks, and I realize I've been raising children with someone who thinks childcare is my job that he assists with.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Expanding the family exposes the unequal distribution of emotional and practical responsibility that was always there.

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“Where Are You with Pregnancy and prenatal care?”

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