People would be a lot more sympathetic to parents if parents were being a lot more sympathetic about things like elder care, for example.

People taking care of parents with Alzheimer's in this mess are way worse off than parents.

You can see your children. You can take care of your children. Your children can see you. Your children can see other family members within reason. Your children probably won't die of Covid.

Seeing your elderly family member with Alzheimer's might kill them. Getting them medical care is a long dance with various doctors in order to try to not give them Covid. Maybe you have to make a choice to pull them out of a memory care facility and bring them home so they don't die. And, if they wind up hospitalized, they may wind up dying completely alone and isolated.

The problem is that parents often act like they uniquely deserve special treatment. Yeah, that pisses people off.

Everybody should have enough leave to deal with things. Period. Not just one "special" group.