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I'd argue that its unfair for the childfree people. I don't have or want kids so let me explain it from my side.

Why should I give up my social life and free time for someone else that has kids?

Why should I do more work so they can take time off to care for their kids?

The way I see it, having kids is optional in life. They knew or should have known the added responsibilities for when they had kids.

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Why do you have to give up your social life because someone on your team has kids? Can't the business adjust its productivity expectations to account for a once in a century pandemic? And kids are optional for any given individual, but in the aggregate if no one has children society will collapse.

About 20 states do not have familial status protections, so that means the boss can give me extra work while the person with kids gets extra time off.

https://www.workplacefairness.org/marital-status-state-law

https://www.abetterbalance.org/resources/family-status-and-c...

So the problem is the boss and/or the company, because they are the ones assigning the extra work, right? Just want to make sure we assign the blame appropriately.

Formally or informally, it’s generally a societal expectation that the childless will pick up the slack in the workplace.

It’s too bad society couldn’t be more realistic, and sacrifice some productivity instead of just pushing the work around. Central banks printed trillions of dollars in a matter of weeks (incinerating some currency value) to keep the economy alive, this is no different. We’re still collectively optimizing for the wrong metrics.

It is not really optional to adopt nephews and nieces when your sibling passes.

Adoption is optional, you have no legal obligations to adopt them.

It is your decision.

If your amount of work weren't dependent on your coworkers, would your feelings change?

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