GUATEMALA CITY — Every 100th baby born in Guatemala grows up as an adopted American, making the Central American country the richest source of adoptees in the Western Hemisphere. But U.S. ratification ...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) – It should have been good news. The U.S. Embassy called to say the Guatemalan government would begin to authorize adoptions five years after a scandal froze the system that sent ...

The story about a young, missing Guatemalan girl whose mother searched for her for five years and eventually found she had been adopted by a couple in Missouri has been floating around for a couple of ...

GUATEMALA CITY -- Guatemalan legislators approved a new law Tuesday to tighten adoptions, while allowing pending adoptions -- mostly to U.S. couples -- to go through without meeting the stricter ...

An unidentified woman holds a child who is up for adoption before a meeting at the Attorney General's Office in Guatemala City on Tuesday. GUATEMALA CITY -- The 24-year-old Guatemalan mother had ...