By Deirdre Imus, president and founder of The Deirdre Imus Environmental Health Center at Hackensack University Medical Center
In the age of appearance-obsessed television shows like “Toddlers and Tiaras,” “Jersey Shore,” and the “Real Housewives,” all of which feature heavily tanned girls and women, it surprised me little that a mother would be arrested and charged with felony child endangerment for taking her five-year old daughter into a tanning booth with her at a New Jersey salon. Continue reading
