Family Court orders parents to stop smoking around six-year-old son

By Harriet Alexander
Updated August 3 2015 - 10:08am, first published July 28 2015 - 7:02pm
No smoking: a Family Court judge has made an order prohibiting parents from smoking near their child.
No smoking: a Family Court judge has made an order prohibiting parents from smoking near their child.

A Family Court judgment that ordered the parents of a six-year-old to refrain from smoking around their son reflects an increasing tendency of the court to make specific orders in the interests of children's health, researchers say.

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