On one side people shouldn’t get special treatment for things of their chosing - that’s just the Principle of fairness of treatment.
Nowadays in modern countries with easy access to modern contraception, having kids is a choice.
However given how for example in America there is a crack down on abortion, things are going backwards in this and having kids isn’t always a choice anymore, in which case it’s actually fair to more easilly accomodate people who have kids more than people who don’t.
On the other side if a country wants to incentivise people to have children in order to, at minimum, avoid a fall in that country’s population, it makes sense to do things to make life easier for people when they have children such as providing free childcare.
Just give everyone the same level of flexibility and access to time off.
We don’t have to debate whether parents deserve to be treated better or worse or why people would have kids or why it’s better to not have kids. Treat everyone the same, give everyone the ability to take time off when needed. That’s it.
On one side people shouldn’t get special treatment for things of their chosing - that’s just the Principle of fairness of treatment.
Nowadays in modern countries with easy access to modern contraception, having kids is a choice.
However given how for example in America there is a crack down on abortion, things are going backwards in this and having kids isn’t always a choice anymore, in which case it’s actually fair to more easilly accomodate people who have kids more than people who don’t.
On the other side if a country wants to incentivise people to have children in order to, at minimum, avoid a fall in that country’s population, it makes sense to do things to make life easier for people when they have children such as providing free childcare.
Just give everyone the same level of flexibility and access to time off.
We don’t have to debate whether parents deserve to be treated better or worse or why people would have kids or why it’s better to not have kids. Treat everyone the same, give everyone the ability to take time off when needed. That’s it.