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If you smoke then you cant adopt children in some places and the ban is spreading
Tobacco Smokers are not allowed to adopt children who are under the age of 5 in Portsmouth, Hants, in England, where the critical age has risen from 2 years to 5.
It is also worth noting that, a childless couple has been stopped from
adopting a child because the husband smokes. The couple have been told
that they will not be allowed to adopt a child under the age of 2 until he
stops smoking for 6 months and provides medical proof that he is now no
longer a smoker. |
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Over 12 states have ruled -- or are in the process of issuing rules -- that
prohibit smoking in the presence of foster children, and 2 states and a
number of cities have laws that ban smoking in cars when any children are
present.
Smoking kills 1000's of children each year, (mainly due to respiratory
infections), and is also a major factor in SIDS. Smoking also causes
millions of medical problems in children every year ranging from asthma
attacks to ear aches, so protecting young children from the effects
of tobacco smoke is long overdue," says Banzhaf. |
So it would clearly not be unreasonable for a social welfare agency or the
government to adopt rules that would not permit adoptions where one or
both prospective parents smokes, and therefore is probably addicted to
nicotine. For the very same reasons, a welfare agency might not wish to
place a child with a person who has a history of addiction to illegal drugs
or alcohol, even if that person promises to change his/her behavior as a
condition of becoming an adoptive parent.
If there was a violation of these rules after a child had been placed for
adoption, or if the smoker simply decided to begin smoking within the
family home after adoption became final, it would very difficult as well as
expensive for the social welfare agency to then try remove the child from
the home.
"If a natural mother or father of a child can lose custody by
endangering the welfare of a child by smoking in the child's presence, it
should not come as a surprise that smoking should be seen as a barrier to an
adoption.
If one or both of the adoptive parents continues to smoke then child is also
substantially more likely to become a smoker in later even if the parent/s
never smoke in the child's presence, and the child is also substantially
more likely to lose the smoking parent prematurely.
Tips to help you quit smoking.
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