My wife works retail. She works where she works because she was able to schedule 5pm to close. This way, she is sure to be home for the kids when they get off the bus. When the kids are sick, she is home. She is able to do all the motherly/household stuff by herself without the hassle of kids in tow, needing to do in a hurry because kids need showers, homework, dinner, bedtime for school tomorrow. If she was fired for something like this, she then ends up somewhere that is more restrictive. The kids now come home to an empty house which they are young, but can do it if need to. We just don't want it done on a regular basis every day. She would have to call off work when the kids are sick, so would be job hunting all the time with being fired from 40some call offs a year (20 days absent from school per kid.) She would probably be fighting to get the no-school days off and from experience, the new job would stupidly schedule her on no-school days, more call-offs, more job hunting from being fired for call-offs. Summers she would have to flat out quit because of the lack of working with her schedule of needing to be home all day when school is out. North, south, east, or west, everything is about 30-40 miles from us. She has 75% chance of ending up north, east, or west where she now has to drive to work in whiteout blizzard conditions, 50% chance on Interstate 80, which just had a family killed in a 30 car pile up when a trailer overturned and crushed her car.
Yes, it could be life-altering.