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Oh my goodness. They cannot be serious as to take a writer who will say:
Every 100th baby born in Guatemala grows up as an adopted American, making the Central American country the richest source of adoptees in the Western Hemisphere. But U.S. ratification of an international adoption treaty is likely to choke off the supply next summer.
THE SUPPLY?? Do any of you here look at your child or the child you are waiting for as simply supply to your demand? These are children, for goodness sake. Children who are born to poor women and raised by (a) loving parent(s) who can provide more. If anyone can figure out how to respond to this article, please let me know. The discussion attached to the article is ridiculous and I would much rather email someone who matters.
If I'm understanding things correctly, there is also wrong information in the article. It says that once the US ratifies the Hague it will require stricter adoption laws from anyone it works with. I'm under the impression that the guidelines are only for Hague countries and that the US and anyone else can work with countries that have not adopted the Hague.
This article is ridiculous and in bad form. Oh, one more thing. At one point it mentions, ""When you look at the time between pregnancies and how many children they have given up, you have to conclude they are doing it for money," she says. "What we're witnessing is a baby factory or farm, dealing with children that should not have been born or put up for adoption."
However, right before this it says one mother received only bus fare for the adoption. So ... she's doing it to receive bus fare?? Obviously whomever wrote this would prefer that the pregnancies were terminated rather than the little lifes be given to families who are unable to adopt and those who simply want to give children a better life.
People make me sick sometimes.
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