At 08:15 PM 1/21/02 -0800 Nick Arnett wrote:
>In any event, employers who help their employees with child care are to be
>commended, in my mind, since they're doing social good. It's not as if the
>childless are being denied benefits; if they had children, they'd get the
>same. You seem to be promoting the same line of thinking that has led
>childless people to try to not pay taxes that go to schools, as if they had
>received no benefit from the existence of public education. All of us are
>*somebody's* children.
As Dan noted: I do not find it commendable when an employer provides
certain benefits to employees who have both parents work and not provide
benefits of comparable worth to those employees who choose to have one
parent stay home with children.
This effectively provides a disincentive to have one parent stay home with
children, and that is most unfortunate.
JDG
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