Man Sheds Weight, Tries Again At Adoption

This article is about a man, Gary Stocklaufer who previously weighed about 550 pounds and lost 200 pounds within 4 months in order to be allowed to adopt a child. Stocklaufer underwent gastric bypass surgery, after he felt that he and his wife were discriminated against in the adoption case because he was obese. The Stocklaufers' case is considered by adoption experts to be one of the first cases where someone seeking to adopt has resorted to surgery after being rejected because he or she is obese. The baby, who is related to Stocklaufer, was removed from the home in July at 4 months old, after having lived there since birth. I understand that the adoption agency is trying to place children in households in which the parents can parent in a healthy way, but this is blatant discrimination. There are currently no written policies in which obese people are excluded from adopting children. If that is the case, smokers and the like shouldn’t be allowed to adopt. In addition this man is married and his wife would be the co-parent, so at the very least this could be considered a single-parent adoption.

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