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In the US it is illegal to discriminate against a job seeker based on parental status - aka it is illegal to require job seekers to have children.

>>booklu+(OP)
depends on how the law is written. the primary purpose is to protect parents, and in some jurisdictions favoring parents may actually be welcome exactly because of that.

either way, it should not be illegal to require parenting experience though. if you can demonstrate that experience without having children of your own (because of much younger siblings, fostering, or working as a caregiver or teacher maybe) then maybe you qualify.