Overweight and obese people all over the world have condemned these guidelines..

Adoption agencies in Taiwan and South Korea have said that they will not consider adoptive parents who are obese meaning that they have a Body Mass Index of 30+. They said that the children must be placed in families which have the most secure and stable environments and they felt that parents who were obese were less likely to provide that.

The Chinese government has also issued guidelines for the adoption of Chinese babies which say that anyone who has a Body Mass Index of 40+ is not eligible to adopt. It is extremely likely that they will frown upon parents who have Body Mass Indexes of over 30 as they already require them to do medical tests to check to see whether they have diabetes or high cholesterol problems.

Overweight and obese people all over the world have condemned these guidelines saying that how much you weigh has absolutely no bearing on whether you will be a good parent or not. They also said that being overweight did not mean that you were necessarily unhealthy and that there could be normal weight people far unhealthier than they were. 

There is a big demand for adoption in Australia and many of the children come from China, South Korea and Taiwan as it is possible to adopt a baby much more quickly from these countries than it is from Australia.  Because the demand outstrips the supply it seems that the adoption agencies in these countries now feel that they are able to be extremely picky and choosy about who they give babies to. 

Ms. Byerley who represents the International Adoptive Families of Queensland in Australia said that these new rules and regulations would mean that hundreds of childless couples would now be unable to adopt and some of them were desperately trying to lose weight so that they could fall inside the adoption criteria.