The Wall Street Journal published Mary Anastasia O’Grady’s “Guatemala’s Stranded Orphans.” Below is a link to an interview with O’Grady–the article itself won’t “re-post.” Everyone agrees: Children first should stay with their mothers or be placed with extended family; second, children should be adopted in-country. But when that doesn’t happen–and few other countries besides the US embrace a culture of adoption, a documented fact–kids grow up in orphanages. Which is what is happening now.
http://live.wsj.com/video/opinion-guatemala-forgotten-orphans/410993E0-1A7B-48FB-8C7C-C83D0B695850.html#!410993E0-1A7B-48FB-8C7C-C83D0B695850
Tags: Guatemalan adoption, Guatemalan orphanages, intercountry adoption, international adoption
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