As a childless person, I believe that parents deserve all the time off, flexibility, and additional benefits for raising children. Good on them. However, I des

As a childless person, I believe that parents deserve all the time off, flexibility, and additional benefits for raising children. Good on them. However, I deserve all the same benefits even though I don't have children. My goal is to eventually have children. In that sense, even just the time and resources I spend dating, making myself more desirable to a life partner, and seeking a life partner is exactly as important as the time and resources you spend caring for your child, because in order to have a child like you I need time to prepare myself to have child. Life is complicated. I have many family issues, as well as mental and physical health issues that require just as much time and resources to take care of as you need to take care of your children. My needs are not less important, less complicated, or less time consuming than your child-rearing related needs. When I see parents implying that as a childless person I'm spending all of my non-work time relaxing at the pool, I can only say that I wish that were true. Not that there's anything wrong with spending all of my free time relaxing at the pool. If I could, I would. Even then, I would deserve all the same benefits as someone who didn't choose to or can't do that. We should not discriminate against people with children. But we also should not discriminate against people without children.