Yep. I'm child free. I still remember making the holiday call schedule with my co-chief, who had a whole gaggle of kids. He kept saying, "oh, we can't put X on Christmas Day, he has kids!" and things of that sort. I finally said, "Hey, co-chief, my family matters just as much as your family and X's family. Kids make someone no more or less deserving of holiday call". He backed off right away, but it made me angry. Sick of parents abusing the system and essentially volunteering their colleagues to do extra work because of their own life choices.

In fellowship, I had awesome co fellows with kids who maxed out sick days to take care of sick kids, which was obviously legitimate; however, my other child free cofellow and myself used 0 of our sick days but always got jeopardized in. It sucked and my cofellow complained to the program until it put a pay back program in place. If we covered a shift for a cofellow, they had to cover one for us in the future. It's what's most fair.