I don't believe companies can legally discriminate based on family status, either in hiring or pay. However, they can, and do, make people with families pay su

I don't believe companies can legally discriminate based on family status, either in hiring or pay. However, they can, and do, make people with families pay substantially higher premiums for health care. At my company, a employee w/ family pays 7 times as much out of their paycheck for health insurance than a single employee does.