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WHEN PARENTS ARE ON A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD, COURTS CRY FOUL AT SMOKING
Author(s) -
Tondo CarrieAnne
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
family court review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.171
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1744-1617
pISSN - 1531-2445
DOI - 10.1111/j.174-1617.2002.tb00836.x
Subject(s) - habit , power (physics) , psychology , cigarette smoking , law , environmental health , political science , social psychology , medicine , physics , quantum mechanics
Should courts regulated a parent's legal smoking habit because it is in the best interests of the children? This article explores the historical views of smoking and the potential and probable health hazards associated with cigarette smoking. By a review of the dangers associated with smoking as well as court cases that have considered smoking as endangement to children, this note suggests that courts do have the power to curtail a parent's smoking habit and in turn should regulate such behavior, especially when it is medically proven that it is in the best interests of the children.