"While I was reading the article I was thinking that it could be that parents who smoke around their children are worse parents."
Perhaps children who have asthma have worse parents since these "studies" were done on asthmatic children.
Any parent that would smoke around an asthmatic child really is bad.
Perhaps children who have asthma have worse parents since these "studies" were done on asthmatic children.
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Perhaps it would be best to grope vainly for another excuse or rationalization. I do not know of a single study supporting such an idea. Children having asthma--that issue--cuts across a LOT of other variables, including child rearing skills.