The interrelationships between children and women employment participation meet their ambiguity in numerous studies, depending on when and where. In the last 20 years, Indonesia women’s employment participation trend line steady increases meanwhile fertility trend likely to remain stagnant. Using the data of 1996, 2006 and 2016 from the National Socio-Economic Survey (Susenas), these changing impacts are observed in working-age women, trying to answer the popular notion that women are increasingly moving out of employment when they have children. Binomial logistic regression was used to measure a child penalty in selected years. This research aims to capture whether there has been any change of phenomenon in the last 20 years on Indonesia women decision to work, especially in relation to parity of child. The result shows that children significantly influence women's employment decisions in each selected years. Surprisingly, as of 2016 the child penalty was twice more likely (not less) to be working than its original level on 1996 in difference direction.