I have a drawer with children's cough and allergy medications, along with a couple other prescribed medications. My ex wife is insisting that I cannot keep them there even though they all have child safety caps on them.
To my knowledge, there is no case law or statute that addresses whether medication with or without child safety caps need to be store out of the reach of your kids.
However, if you do some google research, you will find quickly enough how easily little hands get into bottles with child safety caps -- they are ingenious at accomplishing that. Child safety caps are not safe.
I am sure you adore your kids and would be devastated if one of them was poisoned by medication inside one of those bottles. Just from a common sense point of view, I would heed your former wife's requests and move those bottles out of the kids' reaches.
You certainly do not need to have a litigation brought against you by your wife asserting that you are not keeping your kids safe. Err on the side of caution here, please. I realize that having a former spouse dictating terms to you is uncomfortable and annoying but on this issue, i would relent.
I hope this helps.
Ilysa Magnus
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