Rahvin writes:
For instance, it would be gross negligence for you to leave an open container of Drain-o where a toddler can easily reach it. We don't have police randomly searching homes to find negligent parents who are careless about their household poisons. Instead, if disaster strikes and the child drinks the Drain-o, the negligent parent is then charged.
Not that I advocate parents smoking indoors around their children and not that I ever did or would (I'm smarter than that.) But I grew up in a household full of heavy smokers. Sometimes the cigarette smoke in the room was so thick you see it like a blanket of thule fog. I never had any health problems and neither did my brothers and sisters that grew up in the same environment, all 6 of us. To this day all of us are still very healthy. I know plenty of others that grew up in households with smokers as well, they're still alive and kicking. Just the opposite actually; I don't personally know of anyone that has or had health problems from there parents that smoked in the house with them.
My point of this is that not every child exposed to second hand smoke is going to suffer the ill effects of it but every child that gets there hands on a open bottle of Drain-o well suffer ill effects from it. Is it really blatant negligence worthy of fines or worse, CPS removing a child from its home just because their parent were smoking in the house around them? I wouldn't really call it negligence unless you could show that the behavior was directly causing health issues with that child.
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