Someone please explain why pregnant women or those with small children deserve special parking spaces?

Someone please explain why pregnant women or those with small children deserve special parking spaces?
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To encourage them to shop at the store providing them. Realistically, one reason could be similar to the wider bays offered for wheelchair parking- to allow more room for them to remove and replace some of those monstrous prams without destroying the paintwork on adjacent vehicles.
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