I think that the issue is more that folks who don't have kids are sick of employers bending over backwards for those who DO have kids, often to the detriment of those without.
I have someone at my workplace like that. A lead hand who has to spend every weekend and every holiday with her kids. She's not worked a single weekend or holiday in the years I've been with the company, because "she's got a family she has to think about".
Well, so do I. It may not involve a kid, but I'd like to spend some time on the weekends or holidays with my wife and/or my parents.
It wouldn't even be so bad if the need to work weekends was rotated among those who could do it, but no. Because she has kids, she's exempt. I think that's what gets most non-parents irked with parents.
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