"So, you fake sleep and your kid goes to their mother (or mom is the only one who "hears" the cries at night).That means mom suffers from sleep deprivation, or if it's in the middle of the day, she has to stop whatever she's doing - cooking, resting, working, writing the next Great American Novel - and deal with the issue."
""When I see something like that, I don't see a parent, a partner in that confession," says Eve Rodsky, author of "Fair Play," who has devoted her professional life to trying to make marriage and parenting more equitable for men and women. She notes that women shoulder two-thirds or more of the unpaid domestic work that goes into running a home and raising kids."
Some parents feign sleep so children go to the other parent, often resulting in mothers handling more nighttime and daytime caregiving. Occasional feigning may be harmless in moments of desperation, but habitual deception shifts recurring responsibilities and causes cumulative 'time theft.' Mothers who repeatedly respond lose sleep, sacrifice work or rest time, and interrupt activities like cooking or writing. Women perform roughly two-thirds or more of unpaid domestic work involved in home and child care. Repeated avoidance by one partner reinforces statistics of unequal parenting and contributes to real pain and exhaustion for the other partner.
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