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Originally Posted by The Yen Man
My only beef with my company is that, when people's kids are sick, they're allowed to take a "sick day" off to stay home and take care of their kids. When my parents are sick and don't speak English, I have to take a vacation day to take them to the doctors. Why the double standard?
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I don't understand why you have to justify your sick time at all. Just say you have a doctor's appointment and have to take a couple hours off, or call in sick for the day. As long it doesn't exceed the company's policy on sick leave, they shouldn't care why you're taking it off. With the privacy and discrimination laws being what they are, is a company going to risk opening itself up to a lawsuit by prying too hard into your personal life?
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On another tangent, a few people have defended the modern-day over-protective parent by saying that when we were younger (I'm assuming most of those "we" are between 25 and 40), the dangers weren't as well publicized or scary as they are today.
Probably the most famous child abduction/murder committed in public by a complete stranger was the Adam Walsh murder. His father, John, became a strong public figure in his campaign for the protection of abducted and exploited children, which eventually led to his role as the host of America's Most Wanted. The Walsh family's story was turned into two television movies. I'm 37 and Adam Walsh was a little over a year younger than me. His abduction occurred in 1981.
In Canada, over the course of less than a year in late 1980 through the summer of 1981, Clifford Olson abducted and murdered 11 kids between the ages of 9 and 18 in BC's lower mainland.
It's not like we were living in some idyllic 1950's black and white sitcom.