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As it stands now, there is a HUGE back load of cases that DSS has. They don't have enough people or funding to investigate all cases of child abuse, and I don't want to see serious issues where children's lives are in immediate danger ignored because of parents smoking.
And is it your suggestion that Child Protective Services be involved in such cases? Perhaps even removing children from their parents? Think of that from the perspective of the child.
In extraordinary cases? Possibly. Despite what I've said in this thread I'm actually not unsympathetic to the reality of an understaffed, underfunded DSS. Nor am I unsympathetic to Goshin's point about the remarkable abuse in foster homes. But the matter of child protection services being undermanned and foster homes being terrible does not change my belief that chronic, heavy exposure of cigarette smoke to children qualifies as child abuse. As I said earlier, if the very least this ban achieves is a financial slap upside the heads of those parents, then I can be content with that.