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\"If a mom is home with the kids from the very beginning, if she gets much more maternity leave and the father doesn't get much paternity leave, from the very beginning, mom figures out how to do things herself and dad doesn't and that dynamic just grows and grows as the kids get older and the mom is doing more and more,\" she added.

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