International Guatemala Adoption: the Facts vs. Fiction.

International Guatemala Adoption: the Facts, not the Fiction.

While it is true some unscrupulous American adoption individuals and agencies did cause great harm to children, through dishonesty, cheating, lying, and adversely affected families on both sides of the adoption situation; the majority of American international adoptions were legal, and done with the child’s best interest in mind.

Most Americans do not know what hoops adopting parents jump through to prove to the world they deserved to parent a child let alone an internationally adopted child. They go through more than anyone could ever begin to imagine.

How do I know? My husband and I were one of the families on the tragic end of an unscrupulous American adoption agency owner who ended up in court; was judged by her peers, and found guilty on four felony accounts.(By the grace of GOD we got our abandoned, older age son home - he had spent his life in an orphanage - while, like so many others, we lost another older, abandoned child,through this woman's dastardly deeds.)

The good news is that this former adoption agency owner, can’t open another adoption agency in the USA - ever. The bad news is that this adoption agency owner (like too many others in America) purposely caused great financial hardship to many adoptive families, tried to prevent our already legally adopted child in Guatemala - from coming home, and caused countless sorrow for so many people nation wide.

American adoption agencies run by individuals like her, did indeed cause great harm to children who now will never know a safe, loving, forever home; caused trauma to families in both countries (such trauma - that some families will never be able to over come); and caused the Government of Guatemala to terminate adoptions to the USA, for the forcible future.

But know that countless more effective, reasonable, loving, professional adoption agencies throughout America and around the world, have - and continue to - place needy children in loving homes - just like they did for the Guatemalan orphans. (If you want suggestions of adoption agencies throughout the USA, please contact CirclesOfSeven@gmail, or write to info@CirclesofSeven.com)

All in all…

All in all there was no prejudice from the Guatemalan people at any level - toward Americans coming to adopt their children; nor toward any of the other countries for opening their hearts to embrace these beautiful children.

Remember, Guatemalans love their children. They are a proud and protective people, and we at Circles of Seven(tm) Magazine are proud to have them - in our - Circle of Seven.