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I think it is quite fair that parents get more sick time than single folks. I do not have children, and never will. You see, parents aren't just slacking off.

I think it is quite fair that parents get more sick time than single folks. I do not have children, and never will. You see, parents aren't just slacking off. They are doing the responsible thing - not making a bunch of other children sick while taking care of their own sick child, whom they are responsible for and cannot yet take care of themselves. I'd not trust a 7 year old to take the right dose of medicines on time, for example, nor can the 7 year old go off to the doctor on their own. As you can see in your example, the parents are going to be home with their children regardless, even if using vacation, PTO time, or aren't paid at all. Luckily, I'm now in a country that allows for this sort of thing.

brianwawok 10y ago
> I think it is quite fair that parents get more sick time than single folks. I do not have children, and never will. That is a very European attitude. The American attitude is more or less "You choose to have kids, why should everyone else help pay for it?" Some laws still help, for example you get a small tax break for kids. But it is a struggle. In some towns, the schools are literally falling apart due to age and lack of repair. The school has to do a local vote for approval for funds. The towns with > 50% of the people old and without kids living at home? They tend to vote NO over and over, preferring to have more money for cable TV and not fund other people's kids. (Ignore the fact themselves and their own kids went to the same schools years before).
- Broken_Hippo 10y ago
  Then I had an European attitude long before I moved away from the states. I never really have understood such attitudes, honestly. Today's children are the very folks that will be taking care of me in a doctor's office in the future, driving, raising children of their own, and intertwined with my own life. I'm seriously invested in the folks around me actually making it. It was always frustrating to see such things voted down.

brianwawok 10y ago

> I think it is quite fair that parents get more sick time than single folks. I do not have children, and never will. That is a very European attitude. The American attitude is more or less "You choose to have kids, why should everyone else help pay for it?" Some laws still help, for example you get a small tax break for kids. But it is a struggle. In some towns, the schools are literally falling apart due to age and lack of repair. The school has to do a local vote for approval for funds. The towns with > 50% of the people old and without kids living at home? They tend to vote NO over and over, preferring to have more money for cable TV and not fund other people's kids. (Ignore the fact themselves and their own kids went to the same schools years before).

Broken_Hippo 10y ago
Then I had an European attitude long before I moved away from the states. I never really have understood such attitudes, honestly. Today's children are the very folks that will be taking care of me in a doctor's office in the future, driving, raising children of their own, and intertwined with my own life. I'm seriously invested in the folks around me actually making it. It was always frustrating to see such things voted down.