Too fat to adopt

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It appears that in some cases people are using a persons BMI to dictate whether a person is allowed to adopt a child. Take for example the woman in the following article she is 5'4" and 12 stone, which isn't that big really, but it puts her BMI at 28. To be allowed to adopt she is being asked to loose 2-3 stone.

By the sounds of things she's fairly healthy and is just about your average 38 yr old. So why does it seem that the BMI is being used as a scale to dictate decisions instead of help guide them?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6056516.stm

I can see why one might refuse a morbidly obese person with health issues the ability to adopt a child, but not someone who is deemed to be slightly "overweight".
 
I wonder if they would think that Martin Johnson or Johnny Wilkinson would be considered suitable parents because their BMI put them in the overweight, if not obese category. BMI is a load of ********, FACT.

At 5'4" and 12 stone, yes she is overweight (she certainly isn't a professional rugby player that's for sure) but I doubt to such an extent that it would immpair her abilities as a parent. The world went nuts several years ago I'm afraid.
 
A person 5'4" with a weight of 12 stone has a BMI of 28.9. Thats not a tad overweight, it's NEARLY obese! Obesity starts at BMI=30.

:eek:

Edited: Because I'm a plonker.
 
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jamiemoles said:
A person 12'4" with a weight of 12 stone has a BMI of 28.9. Thats not a tad overweight, it's NEARLY obese! Obesity starts at BMI=30.

:eek:
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12'4" and only 12 stone would be very skinny indeed. ;)
 
jamiemoles said:
A person 5'4" with a weight of 12 stone has a BMI of 28.9. Thats not a tad overweight, it's NEARLY obese! Obesity starts at BMI=30.

:eek:

Edited: Because I'm a plonker.
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according to the BMI it's nearly obese, but as said many many times the BMI is not exactly a good guide
 
On the other hand if she gained a couple of million pounds, she could adopt from anywhere in the world and bring the child here. ;) ........see the Madonna thread
 
Roughneck said:
lol it doenst stop fat people having kids the old fashion way does it?

what a load of tosh
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Can you picture two fatties trying to make babies.... :D :eek: That is not a pretty sight i tell you. :D
 
Alas this is very true. Your weight is taken into account if you try to adopt, the logic being that unhealthy parents may die early. Resulting in more pain for the children. So obviously it's best to keep a child in fostercare for the rest of it's like, with no stable home and no continuity. Absolute smack tards, some people need a good belt around the head with a brick, hopefully that'll knock some sense into their do-gooder, socially warped heads!
 
PaulStat said:
according to the BMI it's nearly obese, but as said many many times the BMI is not exactly a good guide
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I notice the article is lacking a picture of the woman in question so we can form our own opinions.
Even if the BMI can be off it's not the wildly inaccurate calculation people make it out to be. Think about it for a second, this woman is 5'4", really quite short she's going to have to have one hell of a big frame and dense bones to be 12 stone with being obviously fat.
It seems a lot of people don't want to face up to the fact that they are porky and should try do to something about it, they see articles saying things like "The BMI scale says Brad Pitt is overweight" and use that as justification to write it off as having any value at all.

If people want to be fat, IMO, let them, they will just have to accept that it's going to limit some of their life choices.
 
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