> 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 Ame

> 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).