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International adoption from Guatemala increased fourfold from 731 in 1996 to 3289 in 2002, when Guatemala ratified the Hague Adoption Convention in response to widespread reports of corruption and coercion in the system. However, in late 2003 the ratification was overturned by the Constitutional Court of Guatemala, and adoptions resumed. They ...
In 2000, roughly 2.4 percent more Guatemalan boys attended school than Guatemalan girls. [9] In 2005, about 87 percent of Ladino men and 68 percent of indigenous men were literate. [ 7 ] On the other hand, approximately 77 percent of Ladino women, and only about 33 percent of indigenous women were literate. [ 7 ]
Replacement fertility is the total fertility rate at which women give birth to enough babies to sustain population levels, assuming that mortality rates remain constant and net migration is zero. [8] If replacement level fertility is sustained over a sufficiently long period, each generation will exactly replace itself. [8]
More than 10,000 children have been deported from the U.S. and Mexico back to Guatemala. Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service has opened a new office in Guatemala City to help them.
Romeo Pop Sacui has been removed from U.S., according to ICE, which reported that he was wanted in Guatemala for child abuse, violence against women, and abuse of power.
The labor force participation rate for women in Guatemala was at 41% in 2018. [36] Women have a small pay disadvantage, earning 97% of male wages in most occupations. [32] Gender inequality declines if women have a second and/or third educational degree, and they are treated more equally with their male counterparts.
Among Hispanic women, the rate of women dying while pregnant, during childbirth or soon after increased from 14.5 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 2019 to 18.9 in 2022.
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