As a society and species that only survives by way of humans, having children supporting humans with children makes sense.
The hot take in the OP is dumb, selfish, and short sighted.
this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2026
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This seems like a bad faith take. If you have dependents — and I would include animals — then you have obligations to them. Employers tend to have carveouts for those obligations because they are universal to all humans.
Needing to care for a sick dependent is not the same as your middle-of-the-day champagne-and-pilates class, Sharon.
Not exactly, you don't deserve to get dick days for your child being sick if you have no child.
Also you deserve additional leneancy when your child is sick. Cannot plan for that. They just do that and need more supervision than your sick partner.
Most things that reduce non parent's ability to work can happen to parents equally.
Vacation does in fact suck though. A lack of child shouldn't make it harder for you to take a vacation. But your employer also must enable parents to take time off when their kids need supervision, so that sounds like a staffing issue.
I think people fail to understand what it means to work in America. Y’all Europeans really have no clue how bad we have it. If your job is accommodating you because you have kids and someone else complains, your company doesn’t accommodate both. They cancel your accommodation because of “fairness”. There is no ADA accommodation for kids.
The fact they agreed to it in the first place is a miracle. So yes people with no kids need to stfu. You already winning by keeping your money and more free time. Let parents have this one thing.
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I feel like people don't think half a step ahead.
The children that these parents are taking care of, will probably grow up and work. Their work will allow our retirement. People without children just don't provide the same utility to the society.
We need "young people" and if we are unwilling to invest in that, we won't have them. And then we all moan about lack of social safe nets and pension safety.
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