Obese Man Undergoes Bariatric Surgery for Kinship Adoption

A shocking story from last week just reached me. A 500 pound Missouri man, a licensed foster parent and adoptive father, has been found unfit to adopt his infant cousin, who has been shuttled into the state foster care system and away from the family chosen by his birth mother. We expect these kind of rulings from Beijing, where new adoption restrictions took effect recently and penalize obese adopters. Certainly no one is saying obesity "doesn't matter," but this is a sad and shocking story, and every day that baby spends in foster care makes it sadder.