[JLW99]

I agree with you, jren. They let things go for way too long, then tried to "fix" things and now the children and their families (birth and hopeful adoptive) are hurting.
I hope things can be somehow straightened out, but that doesn't help the children who need homes right now....it seems like any overhaul of the system would take a very long time and many innocent people will suffer. Guatemala must become Hague compliant to re-start its IA program, and that would mean instituting all kinds of safeguards against corruption. Sad, because most of it is due to greed on the part of agencies and facilitators and Guatemalan attorneys. And the fact that many were willing to turn a blind eye to corruption for so long. The corruption was in a small number of adoptions, both in the hogars and the foster system---attorneys allegedly recruited birthmothers to relinquish and then placed the babies in group homes or foster homes, and paid them out of the fees collected from agencies and PAPs. Very sad situation, and I hope it can be resolved.