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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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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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