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The Royal Ottawa Hospital?s family court clinic, which does court-ordered assessments on parents, is now using obesity as a factor when deciding if they are fit to raise children.
In a family court case to be ruled on soon, a judge will, in part, decide whether a 38-year-old Ottawa man is too fat to be a dad.
In court filings by child-welfare authorities, a doctor at the family court clinic wrote:
?Finally, (father) has struggled with obesity for years, which impacts significantly on most aspects of his life including (his) functioning as a parent. He was short of breath or winded in simply walking short distances about the clinic and he lacks both the mobility and stamina required to keep up with young and active children.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/J...+factor+fitness+fatherhood/6794649/story.html
In a family court case to be ruled on soon, a judge will, in part, decide whether a 38-year-old Ottawa man is too fat to be a dad.
In court filings by child-welfare authorities, a doctor at the family court clinic wrote:
?Finally, (father) has struggled with obesity for years, which impacts significantly on most aspects of his life including (his) functioning as a parent. He was short of breath or winded in simply walking short distances about the clinic and he lacks both the mobility and stamina required to keep up with young and active children.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/J...+factor+fitness+fatherhood/6794649/story.html