As a young single officer in the Navy, I shared this resentment [housing, duty on Christmas, New Year, etc., etc.] and then I grew up. Children are the future of our civilization and they need parents [as current demographic issues demonstrate]. And parenting requires a lot of extra work, cost, etc. That Corvette you could afford when you were single goes to the college tuition kitty, etc.
As a single young SWO on ships, we didn’t have this issue. Everybody suffered equally because that community eats its own.
There was more pay for having a dependent, even though you did the same job as someone without one.
An idle, easy and wrong assertion. Adults are the future. Children are a hinderance.
When my children were older I began volunteering to work on holidays so those with younger children, and usually less seniority, could be off with their families. The extra holiday pay for working didn’t hurt either.