…nearly one in every 100 children is adopted by an American [U.S.] family…
Here is the story.
Guatemala fact of the day
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I thought the fascinating part was the suggestion that the high numbers were a consequence of a system that is at least partially privatized and one where at least some of the money ends up with the impoverished birth mother instead of well off lawyers.
I hope there isn’t much in the way of unused inventories. Having seen pet stores in the US, I doubt that this is the case.
This whole issue can be both a good and bad thing. The only positive
thing that I can see coming out of this story is that the babies in
Guatemala are able to live a better life possibly in the U.S. and not
have to have a rough life by staying there. However, all together I see
this issue as a bad thing. Especially with the babies who get sold to the
baby sellers. To me from reading this, it is like that selling babies
in Guatemala is like vehicles or any other kind of good here in the U.S.
It’s like some of the people are doing it to get rich. I agree about the
ending of the article to where the U.S. is going to put restrictions on
this issue. It’s good that some babies are able to be adopted, the ones
that truly cannot be taken care of by their birth mothers, but it is
horrible if some of the babies are getting sold, just so the mothers and
baby brokers can make a profit.
It’s called, condoms….I guess they don’t use them. No wonder the world is getting so populated. We are going to end up with 1 out of every 100 kids born throughout the entire world before we know it. What is the world coming too?
I think that this article could potentially go both ways. I would see it as a terrible thing that Guatemala is looked at as a baby farm but they are going to good homes. I may be bias because I am a proud American, I feel that this country is a great place to raise a child and if these adopted children are given a life that could potentially be better than the one in Guatemala, more power to these adopting parents.
i have a sister in law that adopted 2 babies from guatemala, and i recently found out from links and articles that many poor women were held at gun point to give their babies up by noteries and not lawyers to american paying couples. it’s a disgrace, the american shouldnt have such part in this human trafficing market and someday these adoptive children will read about this in history books and go back and find the poor woman that were raped and forced to to sell their children, thats the truth. i look down on my sister in law for selling out on my husbands family home just to purchase one of these kids who will one day return to claim it’s roots and where it came from. it’s a crime and a disgrace! this is why russia and china have united with american policys to not participate in human trafficing. those poor woman and kids of guatemala are being trafficed by the american people, it’s sad. those who can not be blessed and have a child naturally should not human traffic and our country should pass a law to stop this.
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