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Divorce Propaganda and the Myth of the Do-Nothing Dad

The surprising truth about the family workload

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Them Before Us and Josh Wood
Dec 02, 2025
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"Some of you may know I serve as Executive Director of Them Before Us, a nonprofit advocating for children's rights around the world. I recently wrote an article on Divorce and Dads that unexpectedly went viral: hundreds of comments, thousands of shares, nearly a million views. Now, not everyone agreed with it, but I believe it's a perspective desperately needed today. I hope you will give it a read! "
- Josh Wood

Scroll through social media long enough, and you’ll encounter a genre of content so pervasive it’s become its own ecosystem. The exhausted mother is filming herself doing all the tasks her husband “doesn’t even notice.“ Exploding viral threads about being the “primary parent“ and “invisible mental load“ rack up millions of views. The comments section in…


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