Employee has a sensitive 11 month old. How tolerant should I be of attendance issues? This employee has been excellent.  In any matter unrelated to her child, she is reliable to a fault and goes over and above her responsibilities.  She is an asset.  She left her position to have her baby, and I hired her back on about 6 months later when she asked to come back.  She is married.  

Her baby is sensitive and has had frequent non-life-threatening health issues--issues that, obviously, needed outpatient medical care.  Sometimes that required the child to miss daycare and stay at home with a parent.  Here is my issue: how reasonable is it to ask that she and her husband share that responsibility?  Is it fair for her to take advantage of my generosity and for her husband to never miss a day of work?