KY - Dad jailed for toddler's sunburn

[Diamond]

Now wearing FLIP-FLOPS can give you skin cancer

Doctors issued a warning today about the risks of* "flipflop cancer".
They fear the rising popularity of open-toed sandals and designer flip-flops is putting people at risk of getting skin cancer on their feet.
They say footwear such as the gladiator sandals favoured by Sienna Miller and Kate Moss can increase the risk of women developing deadly lesions because they increase the skin's exposure to intense sunlight, a key cause of skin tumours, or melanomas.

Read all: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...lops-raise-skin-cancer-risk-doctors-warn.html

Yikes! I believe it though. I was wearing shoes similar to this pair (see link). There wasn't much skin exposed (especially, compared to flip-flops or sandals), but my sunburns and resulting wounds covered a rather large area...tops of my feet. http://www.kohls.com/kohlsStore/shoes/womens/sportcasual/PRD~c9265/Keds+Champion+Oxford+Shoes.jsp

 

[texasgirl]

Good Lord! I will make sure to tell my husband about this so he will know the importance of sunscreen....otherwise, my poor husband (who can barely change a diaper without calling me in to make sure it's on right) could go to jail! WOW!

I'm sorry but in my household, I handle these kinds of things. Half the time, my husband doesn't know if our kids have had a bath yet, what they did all day, the time I gave their last medication, what a normal temperature is and when they have a fever, how to check the temperature of a bottle or what the normal dose of tylenol is for our 7-month-old son. Seriously, he didn't read any of the child care books and pregnancy books that I've read. I usually handle this stuff for us, but if you were to be a fly on the wall in our household---you'd see a doting and wonderful father and not realize that he doesn't know the first thing about these kinds of things. I don't even think it's a neglect issue....I think some fathers just don't know because their wives take care of it. That's just my opinion though because while my husband works outside of our home, my job is at home taking care of our kids. If my husband had even one of them for one day by himself, I'd either get 100 phone calls from him on my cell phone (with questions like, "Can Jaxson eat cheerios for lunch? when our son doesn't even have teeth yet and is still eating baby food!) or I would come home to a messy house and a baby with food all over his face and a diaper that's on backwards! Sunscreen would be the last thing on his mind with all the stuff he'd be trying to remember to just leave the house! And if I ever left my husband and he had to take care of our son alone....I think he'd have to take a class or something because he'd be lost!

WOW! A felony, huh? Un-friggin-believable to me!!! Poor guy!

 

[Taximom]

texasgirl, I totally know what you mean about doing all that important stuff. My dh is the same way although he's gotten much better over the years! I think it also goes to experience. My friend (that didn't follow my orders!) is in a family where they just don't burn. So he probably didn't think sunscreen and wearing a t-shirt for my son were needed.

Anyway, this guy learned a huge lesson. Hopefully the young boy isn't being abused during this breakup, and this was just inexperience.

 

[MissieMt]

This is rediculous in my opinion. Should the baby been outside without sunblock? Of course not, but I would hoppe that officials there realize they probably have bigger fish to fry. I can not believe they are clogging up the court system with this.