Abandoned
Posted on March 12, 2010 - Filed Under Guatemala | 2 International Amigos Said
In the newspaper today, there was a very sad article. A baby girl, only a few hours old, was found in a costal or burlap bag in the capital. She was quite alive, umbilical cord still attached, but dressed warmly, oddly enough.
The paper reported that when the paramedics arrived, a woman from the neighborhood was feeding the baby a bottle and several of the people asked if the paramedics could leave the baby with them, as she was “very beautiful”.
One look at the baby’s description and it seems likely that the reason the baby was abandoned is pretty clear . . . she’s white with light eyes. In the jealous world of Guatemala, that can only mean one thing . . . the mother cheated on her man.
The reason I know this is that many, MANY people have thought that our boys were the result of indiscretion with a gringo. When Irving came into the hospital and ran to see Dorian after his birth, the doctor told him, “This baby is very light, are you sure he’s yours?” Irving assured him that his wife was as white as they come, hence the coloring. These days, Dorian is darker and with his brown eyes, he can easily pass for Guatemalan. Dante, however, is another matter and poor Irving has been asked many times in the street when he’s carrying his son if the baby is his. It was worse back when Dante still had blue eyes!
The stigma attached to having a white baby, even if that baby is just a throwback, or one with different eye color, can be very strong and in this case, if that was the reason the mother left her daughter in the street, it means this little girl is doomed to grow up in an institution. Since adoptions are still closed to foreigners here, she’ll likely spend her life in an orphanage.
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