His former business partner: "...part of the reason my co-host Scott and I split from him is because we felt Heene put his kids in the line of fire a bit too much"... "The last straw for us was when Hurricane Gustav and Hurricane Ike were heading toward the Texas coastline and Heene wanted to go back there and take the kids," she said. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNew...tory?id=8839052

He takes the kids tornado-chasing on motorcycles: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Balloon+family+courted+danger+lived+edge/2107555/story.html

The woman who replaced Heene's wife in the Wife Swap show that the family is 'chaotic': http://blogs.courant.com/roger_catlin_tv_eye/reality_bites/

I don't believe in overprotecting kids, but the other extreme doesn't seem very desirable, either.

Sue