These days most American workers are using the family friendly benefits policy because .
it's a beneficial policy for the people with kids. What about the people who don't have kids? .
They don't get as many benefits as do the people with kids. In the new generation people don't .
even want to adopt kids or even have kids. The policies should be fair for everyone because then .
the non-parents are left out.
Many People working today have kids and many companies provide these workers with .
benefits for themselves and for their kids. As Eleanor Burkett (author of the book The Baby .
Boon) states that "Fel-Pro gives new parents a one thousand-dollar check as a gift for their baby .
and two months of unpaid leave. Also, Stride Rite, the shoe manufacturer, allows new parents .
eight weeks of paid leave and eighteen weeks more unpaid but with full benefits and job .
protection" (Burkett 496). This is not fair to the non-parents because they are left out. "There's .
no denying that employees with children get thousands of dollars a year in extra insurance, .
unpaid leave, and tax credits that are denied to employees without offspring"(Allerton). .
Some of the big corporations have their own parks for kids, in home childcare, summer .
camps for kids, and lot of other options. For example, kids that have good grades can receive .
corporate scholarships. IBM has one of the best family policies and also has its own day care .
center. Burkett also states "Parents can carve out their work schedules any time from 6:30 am to .
10:30 p.m., or opt out for midday flex."(Burkett 496) Everyone should have a right like this, if .
not then the non-parents would have a hard-time and will have more work to do. "Employees .
without children have lives outside of work and consider their needs and responsibilities just as .
important as those of workers with kids"(Hammers).
In the new generation people don't even want to adopt kids or even have kids because .