I originally posted a novel explaining my experience with this. I quit my job because of the way I was being punished/bullied about my parental role. I was under terrible stress and pregnant with DS2, so I quit. But re-reading it just made my stomach turn.... ugh. So this is take two.

Yes. Women are most often expected to sacrifice their job/themselves to care for a sick child. I hate that. If I'm lucky, when I return to work I'll go and work for DP's boss and it'll pretty much rule out any of this happening to us again. Afterall, it won't matter to him which one of us goes home, he's down one employee no matter what.. lol.