I do not understand why you are picking this framing. That makes no sense to me. We can quibble about the veracity of the study and the chosen hypothesis for e

I do not understand why you are picking this framing. That makes no sense to me. We can quibble about the veracity of the study and the chosen hypothesis for explanation, but what this is about is people feeling pressure from their workplace to not take sick leave when their child is sick. And such workplaces are cruel and monstrous and should not ever exist and I see it as the state’s role to strongly and with harsh punishments enforce that to make this into a societal norm if it isn’t already the status quo. That’s at least my very bog-standard German view, where, while there obviously are problems, this actually is the status quo. So it can be done. To me it seems completely clear that all people have to have unlimited sick leave and that obviously includes sick leave for when their children are sick.