Found this very interesting and sad. It was posted on the adoption form I visit.
(taken from the World Fact Book, the World Bank, and US Dept of State):
Out of 100 children born in Guatemala:
1 will be adopted by a US family
5 will not make it to their 5th birthday
16 will be born with low birth weight
22 will never see the inside of a school
28 will never learn how to read and write
54 will grow up in extreme poverty and malnourishment
74 will never make it to the 7th grade
84 will need to travel over an hour to reach a health care facility.
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
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