However, you feel about people who smoke is it really JUST cause for one to lose custody of their children? Well, if this lawyer gets it his way he will make it grounds and a parent can face child abuse charges too.
According to the Daily Caller:
Parents who smoke around their kids should be challenged for custody, according to the country’s leading anti-tobacco lawyer.
John F. Banzhaf, a law professor at George Washington University Law School and founder of Action on Smoking and Health, touted the proposal at the North American Regional Conference of the International Society for Family Law Monday.
Banzhaf also proposed requiring doctors to file complaints of child abuse against parents whose kids turn up at the emergency room with respiratory problems as a result of their parents’ smoking.
The conference, which played host to the nation’s leading divorce and family lawyers, was urged to use legal means to ban smoking when foster children are in a house or car, and to “punish parents or others who smoke when children are in the car.”
While in no means do I advocate for anyone to drive around smoking with children in their car, isn’t this more government overreach? What about parent’s who children are obese or who have diabetes? This is a slippery slope and while they tug at our heartstrings and say “it is for the children” we have seen how well that has worked out already. Excuse me if I feel that a parent smoking is no worse than feeding children Mountain Dew and greasy burgers every day.
What do you think? Should a parent be charged with child abuse and lose custody for smoking? Let us know in the comment section below.