Should child free people have to accommodate people with kids in the workplace?

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73. I believe

we should be assisting each other.
Most people will want a family, it's what humans generally do. When you take on employment, you take on whatever tasks the company asks you do complete. Not much different than paying taxes to fund public school even after your kids are grown and have families of their own.
That being said, you can't accommodate someone showing up late 3 times a week because the insist on driving their precious to school instead of putting them on the dang bus. It is the unexpected and unplanned events that we try to accommodate. It has to be a give-and-take condition. Comp time, a little bonus, an extra PTO day, things that a good employer will do in recognition of someone who is a team member.
The real problem are the employees who take advantage. And those should be dealt with appropriately and not made someone elses job to take up the slack.