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Most babies go to the USA where demand is high. “It is difficult,” says one mother, “After she had gone I didn’t eat for days.” Such is the demand that babies are even being kidnapped. Changing hands for $3000 on the black market. To prevent the illegal adoption of kidnapped babies compulsory blood tests have been introduced by the American …
November 2000. Martin Adler goes undercover to report on the profit-driven adoption business in Guatemala. He reveals how children are not being sold to would-be parents from overseas; they are actually being sold to meet demand. 99% of Guatemala’s adoptions are organized by private sector agencies and lawyers, who use the weak adoption laws, and the internet, to profit from selling …
Missing and stolen children can be difficult to identify—many have forgotten their families and even their own identity. Geneticist Jose Lorente is hoping to change that with a worldwide DNA testing program that has already matched 800 children with their families. The Science Show reports. A little girl called Anyelí was kidnapped from her house just south of Guatemala City …
