The lie we love -- Social reports -- Privatizing adoptions -- Adoption rings and baby brokers -- Children for export -- Disappeared children -- Best interests of the child -- Inside private adoptions -- The reckoning -- Epilogue: the search
Summary
During Guatemala's decades-long civil war, tens of thousands of children, many of them Indigenous Maya, were coerced or kidnapped from their homes. They became commodities in a booming private adoption business, and most wound up in the United States. Rachel Nolan explores the human toll of a global industry that thrives on exploitation
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (JSTOR, viewed March 21, 2024)
