Toddler put up for adoption because parents are heavy smokers

A judge recommends that a two-year-old boy is taken into care after social workers say his parents heavy smoking is causing him to suffer breathing difficulties:

heavenlyfatheragain wrote:yet queers can adopt boy life is strange..

Raggamuffin wrote:You can't stop people from smoking just because they have children, but they should do so outside and keep it away from the kid. They were given a chance to change their behaviour apparently.

Belatucadros wrote:

heavenlyfatheragain wrote:yet queers can adopt boy life is strange..

So where this has nothing to do with homosexuals and clearly this young boys health is at risk. You turn this straight away into promoting your bigoted views.

heavenlyfatheragain wrote:

Belatucadros wrote:

So where this has nothing to do with homosexuals and clearly this young boys health is at risk. You turn this straight away into promoting your bigoted views.

nope just showing the bias and just how ridiculous rules get...

Belatucadros wrote:

heavenlyfatheragain wrote:
nope just showing the bias and just how ridiculous rules get...

No, you are trying to turn the thread into gay bashing, its as simple as that.

heavenlyfatheragain wrote:

Belatucadros wrote:

No, you are trying to turn the thread into gay bashing, its as simple as that.

not at all just showing a ridiculous miss match in standards, if the couple were queers i doubt if this would ever have happened for a start..
smoking is legal, to take someones child away for smoking is absurd, the nanny state gets worse and worse if this continues everyones rights will be eroded away...

Raggamuffin wrote:The kid had an inhaler, which suggests that he had been taken to the doctor about his breathing at some point.

There were other issues too - drug paraphernalia and the state of the house.

I think that every effort should be made to get parents to change their ways before a kid is taken off them, but if they refuse and it's affecting the kid, what else can be done?

Judge Louise Pemberton said the little boy needed an inhaler to help his breathing, but was being badly affected by the level of smoke in the house.

In her ruling she explained: “On entering the living room Ms Allen described being able to see a visible cloud of smoke surrounding the father and (the boy).

“(The boy) was asleep on the sofa and had been unwell for some time by this point. Ms Allen described the room as 'so smoke entrenched that I had difficulty breathing'. She immediately expressed concern to the parents as to the impact of such smoke on (the boy), who had already been prescribed an inhaler within the previous month to help his breathing.”

The judge said the parents had been unable to appreciate the level of concern over their son’s health, nor adapt their behaviour.

Health and social services staff had also raised other concerns about the boy's care.

The judge was told that the boy's father had mental health problems and that their home had been “dirty, smelly and unhygienic”. There was also evidence of drug paraphernalia and the father had also tested positive for cocaine.

heavenlyfatheragain wrote:so the headline it being about smoking is extremelu misleading as it could be about drugs, abuse and neglect...