Guatemalan moms face agonizing decision - new Guatemalan government effort to ensure that mothers really wanted to give their babies up

Now, most of these women don’t even have that: Babies whose adoptions have been annulled will likely spend years in government-run orphanages before they can be adopted under the new rules.

Of the 2,286 pending cases, authorities have reviewed about 750, annulled 26 adoptions and are pressing criminal charges in nine against birth mothers, lawyers and civil registrars who allegedly forged documents, Attorney General’s spokesman Jorge Meng said Monday.”*

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