India’s Orphans, FOR EXPORT ONLY? Reflection on intercountry adoptions, after reading ‘Romania for Export only, the untold story of the Romanian orphans’ by Anant Asthana Business of selling children in the garb of “Adoption” goes on and it is hard to dismantle this adoption-mafia which has come up in India. The author is a lawyer in… Read more »
Category: Reviews
Kim Gohyang
I just finished reading Roelie Post‘s book, Romania for Export Only: the Untold Story of Romanian ‘Orphans’. By reading this book, I’ve learned how the lobby of adoption agencies and NGO are vicious and ferocious. It doesn’t surprise anymore what’s happening in Korea right now. This book is a must read. If you think inter-country adoption… Read more »
India’s Orphans: FOR EXPORT ONLY
Source: Tehelka Foundation A personal Inquiry by Anant Asthana on Thursday, November 1, 2012 Me: I don’t understand you guys’ opposition to inter-country adoption. You are extremists. Arun: Anjali! Give that book to Anant. Anjali: But I have brought that book for registrar. Arun: No, give it to him. It makes more sense to give… Read more »
Daniel Ibn Zayd
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.
Review by Elizabeth Willmott Harrop
Book Review: Romania For Export Only, The untold story of the Romanian “orphans” by Roelie Post In 2001, I worked on a European Union project euphemistically titled “Public Awareness Campaign to Prevent the Abandonment of Children in Romania”. I say euphemistically because it was in essence an anti-child trafficking project. Orphanages, where abandoned children ended… Read more »
Janine Vance author of The Search for Mother Missing: A Peek Inside International Adoption
June 2012 Roelie Post’s book, Romania for Export Only: the Untold Story of the Romanian ‘Orphans’, exposes the formation of an unjust legalized system called inter-country adoption, in which children are taken from their families and sent to foreigners. By reading the book, I was given insights into how adoption lobbyists forcefully and subtly manipulate… Read more »
Carolyn D.
The travesty that was Romanian adoption is not going to be repeated, at least for now, despite the machinations of the adoption industry. I am reading Roelie Post’s book on the Romanian adoptee debacle of the late 1980s and 1990s and this is most certainly a victory for children.
Reader’s reaction – Romania for Export Only
Tonight I got a phonecall from someone who had just finnished reading my book. ‘Reads like a thriller’, she said. And she was curious about the follow-up. Will there be a happy ending? That remains to be seen… A bit of follow-up can already be seen at Search a Chil, Pay Cash, the Adoption Lobby… Read more »
Elena Elosegi:
First of all I wanted to congratulate you on your book that I just finished. I found it fascinating and impressive. At times I thought I was reading a novella… Thank you, I’ve seen the otherside of the story of adoption in Romania. I started to get interested in adoption in 1999 and had no Internet access to almost 2001. It was very enlightening. Right now I heard the news on television. In Spain there are 34,000 homeless children in schools. Obviously these are not adoptable, the birth parents have not lost custody and is verydifficult to adopt. How ironic right? The Spanish are going to all nations to adopt children and have 34,000 in our juvenile facilities. Ireland is going to visit the U.S. to look into the possibility… Read more »
Victor Bostinaru, Member of the European Parliament:
About Romania for Export Only: A DRAMATIC, AND SOMETIMES INCONVENIENT TRUTH…, but it is an x-ray about the realities Romania faced all this tragic decade.