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I think this shows up in various ways. Watching a salaried worker come in late, stay home cause kids are sick, take off early because kids have dental appt, etc versus watching the low paid hourly worker under them go without pay to take care of all the same things because they aren't salaried, have no wfh ability, and are out of leave from using it so often sucks.
What extra flexibility do parents have? Are we talking about doctor and school appointments? I don't have kids and I'm allowed to go to a doctor during work hours. I'm also allowed medical leave to care for family members. I can come up with any excuse to leave work for couple of hours as long as I make up for it later. If I work less, I'm unreliable and it happens regularly I will eventually get fired, same as someone with children.
As a parent, I am given the same exact treatment as I was at the same company before. I already was a flex worker in the sense of WFH or office is entirely up to me (except when I need to be somewhere, but the need is the key), if I take my child to a doctors appointment, I am using my sick time which is allocated to all employees equally. My insurance is arguably a "better deal" since the "family plan" cost doesn't change when you add another dependent vs if it's just you and your spouse.
I would ask what these people think when they get "extra flexibility" when they have an aging parent or sick spouse they are responsible or assisting the care of? Is that flexibility okay, simply because having a child is a choice, and having a parent is not? Then what about your spouse?
I agree with others in this thread that are suggesting these people don't really care about flexibility, they just want to take it away from the parents that use it or need it.
On one side people shouldn't get special treatment for things of their chosing - that's just the Principle of fairness of treatment.
Nowadays in modern countries with easy access to modern contraception, having kids is a choice.
However given how for example in America there is a crack down on abortion, things are going backwards in this and having kids isn't always a choice anymore, in which case it's actually fair to more easilly accomodate people who have kids more than people who don't.
On the other side if a country wants to incentivise people to have children in order to, at minimum, avoid a fall in that country's population, it makes sense to do things to make life easier for people when they have children such as providing free childcare.
I see it this way: my boss has no right asking me if I have children or not and I have no obligation to tell the truth when asked. Its a non issue if you ask me.
Parents get to pay less taxes here, so their net pay is higher. I'm OK with that.
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