Smoking toddler

this is what we're talking about in the office today:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/7845771.stm

This is one of the comments by the judge is his summing up: -

The judge added that while the offence would normally cross the custody threshold, he did not want to cause her children any further emotional harm by separating them from their mother.




I can't help but think that the best place for these kids is well away from someone like her, or as someone who has no kids am I missing the point.

seen this on the news last night...WTF???????????

40 weeks suspended for 2 yrs?.....

this woman should be sectioned.....she must be a loony tune...words cannot describe...

but they were probably low tar

[Messie]

Originally Posted by grh1904

This is one of the comments by the judge is his summing up: -

The judge added that while the offence would normally cross the custody threshold, he did not want to cause her children any further emotional harm by separating them from their mother.




I can't help but think that the best place for these kids is well away from someone like her, or as someone who has no kids am I missing the point.

Yes I think you're missing the point. Why should the child have to go through the distress of losing his Mother as well as everything else.?
The Mother appears to be making great efforts to improve her parenting skills. And I'm sure she's be well watched (as far as they are able) the the Social Services

Originally Posted by Messie

Yes I think you're missing the point. Why should the child have to go through the distress of losing his Mother as well as everything else.?
The Mother appears to be making great efforts to improve her parenting skills. And I'm sure she's be well watched (as far as they are able) the the Social Services

Has she quit the fags though?

[jambo]

Originally Posted by Ed

Has she quit the fags though?

She doesn't have to, but the kid should probably either give up or buy his own.

"Remove the kids" the battle cry of the public, but having spoken to more than one social worker the problem is a lack of suitable places to put the kids. It's not a case of removing them and giving them to a loving, responsible family, it's putting them into an over-stressed system without the capacity to home them properly. And that's a decision taken when all else appears to have failed, not a first stop.

Jambo

Originally Posted by Messie

Why should the child have to go through the distress of losing his Mother as well as everything else.?
The Mother appears to be making great efforts to improve her parenting skills. And I'm sure she's be well watched (as far as they are able) the the Social Services

Originally Posted by jambo

"Remove the kids" the battle cry of the public, but having spoken to more than one social worker the problem is a lack of suitable places to put the kids. It's not a case of removing them and giving them to a loving, responsible family, it's putting them into an over-stressed system without the capacity to home them properly. And that's a decision taken when all else appears to have failed, not a first stop.

Jambo

Well said

Child picks up on parents habits. Exactly the reason I quit. I learnt to smoke from picking up my mothers cigarette ends she discarded out the back window.