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Originally Posted by arthymom
1 in every 100. Also, that Guatemala's adoption rate per capita is the highest in the world.
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Those are the only numbers I have seen in a long time. However, they don't take into account unregistered births. Those are pretty impossible to estimate. It is my understanding that if a birth isn't registered within the first 30 days, then the cost of registering it goes up and the process might be more difficult as well. I can imagine that it would be pretty difficult for some women living in remote areas, in the first 30 days, to get to a town to register.
Sadly, I read a quote in the Washington Post in the last year that estimated that 1 in 10 Guatemalans were living illegally in the U.S. And, that for each one here, they were supporting an average of 4 people in Guatemala.
For me, the figure 1 in 100 babies being adopted by U.S. families, now takes on a whole new dimension.