The National Adoption System and Child Protection in Guatemala: Looking Back and Examining the Today

IF 0.9 Q3 SOCIAL WORK

Adoption Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-12-30 DOI:10.1080/10926755.2022.2156641

Carmen Monico, Karen S. Rotabi-Casares, K. Bunkers

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Abstract

Abstract This article discusses the evolution of adoption policy and practices in Guatemala from the 1990s to 2021. The authors synthesized own research and analyzed adoption scholarship and reports and organized that history in three distinct periods: (1) conflict years (1966–1996) when mostly Guatemalan military families and associates adopted stolen children, (2) post-conflict and millennium adoption years (1997-2007) when the commercialization of children and illicit adoptions surged, and (3) reform years (2008 to date) when new adoption regulations and institutions were established. The article concludes that Guatemalan regulations aligned with international conventions improved domestic adoption, but gaps remain within the adoption and child protection system.

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危地马拉的国家收养制度和儿童保护：回顾和审视今天

摘要本文讨论了从20世纪90年代到2021年危地马拉收养政策和做法的演变。作者综合了自己的研究，分析了收养奖学金和报告，并将这段历史分为三个不同的时期：（1）冲突年（1966年至1996年），当时大多数危地马拉军人家庭和同伙收养了被盗儿童；（2）冲突后和千年收养年（1997-2007年），儿童商业化和非法收养激增，（3）改革年（2008年至今），制定了新的收养条例和机构。该条的结论是，危地马拉的法规与国际公约相一致，改善了国内收养，但收养和儿童保护制度仍存在差距。

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Adoption Quarterly SOCIAL WORK-

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期刊介绍： Adoption Quarterly is an unparalleled forum for examining the issues of child care, of adoption as viewed from a lifespan perspective, and of the psychological and social meanings of the word "family." This international, multidisciplinary journal features conceptual and empirical work, commentaries, and book reviews from the fields of the social sciences, humanities, biological sciences, law, and social policy. In addition to examining ethical, biological, financial, social and psychological adoption issues, Adoption Quarterly addresses continuity in adoption issues that are important to both practitioners and researchers, such as: negotiation of birth and adoptive family contact.