Yes that's all fine and dandy but why is it my problem or the employers problem? If people want to have kids they should be willing to pay the price. The rest of us constantly get left picking up the slack. What about those of us with elderly parents? We don't get all this adjustments to take of them, I know I dont.
Also what about people who don't want to have children, or that are unable, or are gay and can't reproduce because their partner is the same sex.
From a realistic side, a large percentage of people have kids. You can't expect companies to hire only single people. I don't even think there would be enough people in the workforce if you only hired single people. Furthermore, if you only hire single people, then people with spouses and kids won't be able to find job, and will have to go on welfare. Then you will be bitching that they are on welfare. On the other hand, people need to keep having kids to keep the species going. Can't have it both ways.
With that said, there is an expectation that parents, to a certain degree, to need to be there for their children. That's how society works. So, if a mom is at work, and her kid gets hit by a car, the expectation is that the parent will be allowed to leave work. In the same way that I was allowed to leave work when my mom had surgery. Now, most of the parents I have worked with only leave during dire emergencies. And as I said previously, if we want to raise healthy and happy kids, that includes parents being there during medical emergencies. Its part of the way it is. Its part of the way society keeps running effectively. In that sense, people are granted certain privileges. You've always said that things should not always be equal. So, clearly they aren't, since these people have kids and are granted some leeway. Unless you think people should just stop having kids.
