Lol, I live on potatoes, just about! I thought they were good for you.
It's a sad story about Bulgaria and what happened to the land. The vast majority of the people, including the Roma, fed themselves by growing their own food on small plots of land. Then communism messed it all up, then had to return to the old system without admitting it because they couldn't feed the people.
Then after communism fell, they tried to give land back to people officially. They based it on family lineage and who had 'owned' the land. Often, people had worked the same bit of land for generations, but didn't own it. Roma completely lost out under this system, sadly, leaving them with very little means of survival. No one wants to give them jobs. Page 168 of this BIG document has a very interesting study on Bulgarian land distribution/grabs.
http://fian.at/assets/Uploads/land-in-europe-jun2013.pdf
There are lots of people in Bulgaria still getting by with this lifestyle in rural areas. Dietwise, I think it's quite healthy. I agree it would be ideal if people who don't have resources to care for their children, didn't have them. But people do, all over the world. You can't make them stop. The absolute only thing that consistently results in women having fewer children, is access to education and after that, employment. Populations just drop after that.
I can't help feeling it is little M who is going to bear the brunt of mistakes by adults and authorities and politics, in this case. She's going to be fought over, wherever she goes. She has become a political hot potato, ironically. I hope somehow, someone can find her a stable and loving home and keep her in touch with the siblings she knows and loves, if she can't be with them.
I fear it won't happen though. Poor little tot.