I agree with the previous post one hundred percent. I got called to jury duty two years ago and thank god, I had family nearby who could pick my son up from daycare that day. The courthouse for my county is an hour away, and the daycare was 45 minutes in the opposite direction, so if I'd gotten selected it would have been extremely inconvenient, if not impossible to manage considering my family was not always available. Now my son goes to a closer daycare, so my husband could pick him up without completely messing up his work schedule, but not everyone has the benefit of working from home like we do, or they have kids in school who need to be picked up earlier. They will excuse you from jury duty if you're a stay at home parent of a child younger than school age, but what about parents who work outside the home and have children the same age? It just doesn't make sense.
I have jury duty again coming up in a few weeks. If the courthouse was closer, I wouldn't mind as much. I wish they didn't summon us based on county, but rather the courthouse you lived closest too.