Kids and cigarettes: stupidity of grown-ups or the reason for prison?

Several days ago in Great Britain Rebecca Daivy had uploaded in Facebook some photos of her baby son with a cigarette in his mouth. The police came to her house to check the family living conditions and treatment of a child.

To my mind it is the LEAST which our society MUST do to SUCH parents. I even can’t find word to describe all horror of this situation. As a mother of twins as well as the smoker in past I suppose there must be strict laws for such terrible incidents. The punishment must be evident – up to deprivation of parental rights.

Of course every person has a right to smoke, but he or she must understand that a child is not a toy, not an object for a “funny” joke or a “cool” photo. Parents must not share their bad habits (and smoking doubtlessly IS a bad habit) with children, they must not teach babies to smoke.

Serf the web and I am sure that you will find other such pictures. I hope the police would pay attention to all of them but it is only a drop of the ocean. The ocean of carelessness, stupidity and immorality with which we have to face daily.

Sorry for such aggressive post, but emotions really blow me up in this case.