Several members of the Guatemalan Congress has submitted a new proposal which will be submitted to congress early next week. We have been informed by our agency that although this means that prospective families will be allowed to continue through the process it may not mean that new cases will be allowed to finish, as the grandfather date is only through April (US has not implemented the Hague).
Here are the specifics:
- Includes a strong ‘grandfather’ clause,
- Designates April 30, 2008 as the effective implementation date of the Convention,
- Allocates $5 million Quetzales ($650,000 USD) for the creation of the Central …read more

There are currently 3,000 (some statistics say 5000) children waiting in foster care in Guatemala, all of them matched with families in the United States and all waiting to be welcomed by their forever families. However, if their adoption case (yes it all sounds so technical) does not get processed by December 31, 2007 they may never get home…or live in foster care inevitably.
Here is a list of things, recommended by Joint Council of International Children’s Services, that you can do to help bring them home.
How YOU can participate in the …read more

National Public Radio has gone and done it again…published a series of adoption stories that will have you both steaming mad at the adoption system and the crooks who take advantage of prospective families’ dreams and fighting back tears as author A.M Homes describes her first few phone conversations with her biological mother in the exert from her book, The Mistress’s Daughter: A Memoir
Read an Adoption Agency Checklist to help you avoid the pitfalls of adoption.

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