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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A “gene” no? Social conditioning, yes. Did your dad model sending flowers to his mother for Mother’s Day, or a birthday call and gift? If he didn’t, did your mother model “pick up the slack for your husband”? Did your mom (like mine) model, “After a holiday meal, the hostess starts clearing table and asks her daughters—not her son—to help?” And on and on. If you are the mom of a boy, I hope you and your husband and modeling division-of-labor behaviors, and teaching them by example that family relationships and being thoughtful and active participants in family life is not just “women’s work.”[/quote] ^^Meant to say “especially modeling”…it’s important to model this behavior whether or not you have a son, as DH and I do for our two daughters.[/quote]
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