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At some point we want to focus on the needs of the children, and of course we want children to be raised in a healthy environment on a healthy diet. We may tend to, rightly or wrongly, see overweight parents in a negative light because we assume they lead an unhealthy lifestyle, which extends to how they raise their children. We assume they are McDonalds addicts who serve their children copious helpings of trans fat-laden fries and fatty burgers with milkshakes to wash it down. Instead, in our perfect world, children are raised by health food freaks who also force (encourage) them to exercise.
Nevertheless, we would find it abhorrent to take children away from their obese natural parents. And if that is the case, I don't see how we can hold adoptive parents to a much higher standard.
Perhaps we could instead focus on serving healthier meals in our school cafeterias and reintroducing physical education to our public schools.
