Defining Diego | 3. Baby Boom

Defining Diego

Sony Music

Society & Culture, Parenting, Kids & Family, Relationships, Documentary

4.6 • 550 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Adoption has become a booming industry — the price is soaring, and Guatemala has become a top exporter of babies for adoption, second only to China. But when making families becomes secondary to making money, the cost to Guatemalan birth mothers is incalculable — and babies are treated more like products than people. Meanwhile, on a trip back to his birth village, six-year-old Diego receives tragic news — and Laurie and her husband Dan face a tough decision. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Previously on All Relative, Defining Diego
0:12.0	I give Diego away because I'm a woman and I can't really teach men's work to the boys.
0:23.6	So facilitators say, hey, if you don't want this child, why not give it to this American parents?
0:30.6	Do you think Diego would be happier here or with us?
0:34.6	Elieha.
0:35.6	What I think, it's better for my son to be in U.S. and because you're the parents of Diego. Can you hear that?
0:57.0	And in a few minutes, who do we expect to show up?
1:02.0	Isabel?
1:04.0	Isabel.
1:06.0	And we don't know whether she'll bring the children or how many she'll bring.
1:11.6	We're kind of hoping that she'll bring Juan's.
1:16.6	Juan and...
1:18.6	What's your name? My sister's name?
1:21.6	My sisters?
1:22.6	They were Julia and Josefa.
1:25.6	Julia and... Julia and Josefa. Julia and Josefa had wanted me, our brothers, brother and sister.
1:36.4	In the 2005 trip, we stayed at the bamboo.
1:39.2	Do you remember that?
1:40.2	It had that great swimming pool right in the middle of everything.
1:43.3	Yeah, I remember that.
1:44.2	And I swam with a trance a up, and I was scared because it drowned.
1:47.8	Uno, two, three.
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