Defining Diego | 4. The Fall of International Adoption

Defining Diego

Sony Music

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

4.6 • 550 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The international adoption racket is surging — and it’s gotten way out of control. All over the world, ugly stories begin to surface: of stolen children, shady adoption lawyers, and birth mothers pressured to give up their children. So in 2008, under increasing pressure from human rights activists, the Guatemalan government shuts the whole thing down. And on a trip to Guatemala, Diego’s curiosity is sparked by seeing a photograph of his birth father for the first time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Something else.
0:02.0	Previously on all relative, defining Diego.
0:12.0	This is really very huge for the birth brothers.
0:16.0	To give a child, to relinquish a child is very, very difficult.
0:19.0	Other agencies were charging $50,000 to, you know, $75,000.
0:24.9	It's a huge red flag.
0:26.6	It tells me that this is absolutely a business.
0:32.1	Please let Isabel know that if we had the money,
0:35.9	we would be happy to have Diego's sisters.
0:48.4	So, Diego, there was this one night when you were seven. I think you were already asleep.
0:57.7	I got this phone call, and it was about Isabelle.
1:00.5	You knew she was pregnant with... We knew that she was going to have a baby in August.
1:03.3	She told us that.
1:04.5	Okay.
1:05.2	So that's our baby.
1:06.7	Yeah, that's your baby.
1:08.8	It was 2005, and Karen McDonald had heard about us from a radio story I'd done.
1:15.0	She was in the process of adopting Isabel's new baby.
1:18.7	That's the baby Isabel had been carrying when we saw her a couple years earlier.
1:23.2	The baby she'd asked us to raise.
1:26.0	Isabel thought he'd be a girl, but he turned out to be a boy.
1:29.8	The McDonald's were going to name him Gavin.
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