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Of course childless people have needs too and deserve workplace flexibility. This post smacks of looking into your neighbor’s bowl though. If you don’t have all the additional obligations that come with parenting, don’t claim to be the same as those who do. Whatever life concerns you also have: your own health, aging parents, mental wellness, pets, etc etc etc parents ALSO have on top of kids. So get the workplace flexibility you need without crying about what parents get. If you know, you know. And if you don’t know, you really don’t know (but your mother does).
I’m so fucking sick of being looked at like a prodigal slob for being a parent. SMfH. Here we are taking swipes at each other instead of focusing on the employers. Good job playing right into their hands. Fuck.
Nobody has anything against parents getting these benefits or is saying that they don't need them. What's the problem is that everyone should be getting them, parents or not.
I can agree with that as far as it goes. In some workplaces there can be zero sum cases where someone has to be on duty. If it comes to that someone who has a sick kid to look after should get the flexibility over the person who doesn’t. And hey if the parent’s kid is not sick, and the childless person’s grandmother is, then THEY should get the flexibility.
Just stop saying that you need all the same flexibility as parents. You don’t.
I beg to differ - there are definitely people in here that are against parents getting these benefits.
What's shocking to me is that people are blaming parents more than the system/employers that overburdens the workers without kids.
Seriously - the employers could end all of this nitpicking about who gets what by simply offering the same level of time off and flexibility to everyone.
Parents aren't the enemy here and never have been.
If everyone had the flexibility for everything they need in life, people would still complain if parents get more because they need more.
If childless people aren’t getting the minimum they need for health and wellness and family care or whatever might be named, then go agitate for that. Leave parents out of it.
I don’t need the same accommodations as a worker in a wheelchair. I’m not running around saying everyone should get them.
Raising kids is literally essential work to support human civilization. People gripe about parental benefits but somehow still want children raised well to do all the jobs and create this world we live in.