Roelie Post’s account is an insider perspective that is all the more valid coming from someone whose work and very position required a non-resistant stance against the international trafficking of children that we euphemistically refer to as adoption.
Chronicling eight years of work for the European Commission, this book documents the systemic nature that sees adoption as simply another means for profiting from such trafficking. Most interesting perhaps is the nation-state of Romania, moving from its “outsider” position to a member of the European Union, and claiming that as such it should not be an “exporter” of children, like the other esteemed members of the Union. Here we see the EU as an exploiter supreme on the level of international politics, with this exploitation manifesting itself in the exportation of Romanian children.
A sobering account in diary form that gives the lie to any notion of “humanism” where adoption is concerned. Highly recommended; all proceeds go to ACT (Against Child Trafficking). —Daniel Ibn Zayd