I just found this humorous, in an odd way. Fat people can’t adopt, I guess that leaves out half of the US.
The rules will also exclude people who are seriously overweight, wheelchair dependent or take anti-depressants.
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And in related news, Rosie O’Donell is now pissed.
Interesting. The Chinese used to consider being plump a sign of prosperity.
In related news, I heard Swimfan is moving to Beijing.
The stuff in the article seemed to make sense. If they are relaxing restrictions on the number of kids families can keep in China, they should have fewer orphans. If you also couple that with double the applicants for adoptions, it makes sense to be more restrictive with your requirements, and eliminating people who live unhealthy lifestyles seems like an obvious measure.
This article leaves out some details. Adoptions will be barred to persons with a BMI over 40. Over 40 is considered morbidly obese. Of greater concern is that it also excludes adoptions to persons whose net worth is less than 80k and to any couple where either spouse is under 30 or over 50. That kicks out a lot of good people.
Fortunately, D’Wife and I made the cut.
You can imagine our trepidation when we got the e-mail titled “IMPORTANT: New Adoption Guidelines”
Anyone know about how many Americans are among the 20,000 applicants per year? I’m asking how many people are actually affected by these rules? I guess it sounds like 8000 Chinese babies to Americans each year, so how many people will really be turned away based on these rules?
That kicks out a lot of good people.
But that also allows those good people to change their focus and to try to adopt from another country with more lenient guidelines, say Vietnam, Korea, Thailand, the list goes on and on.
There’s no place that says: “If you’re wealthy you can adopt from anywhere. Mainstream US has to go to China”
If we hadn’t made the cut, we would have been upset, but would have found a plan B … or C.
Plus, this is China. If they see a negative impact to their side of the program, the guidelines will surely change back. In the year we’ve been in the program the wait time has flucuated from 8-12 to 13-16 months, and is contracting again.
Fortunately, D’Wife and I made the cut.
You can imagine our trepidation when we got the e-mail title “IMPORTANT: New Adoption Guidelines”
Congratulations. Five months ago we adopted a five year old boy from Russia and it’s been fantastic. Best wishes.