International Adoptee family do you have a friend from your child's native country?

[Anonymous]

Curious, how much do you intermingle? A friend with a 3 year says She is afraid it would confuse her child at a young age with a international link and interfere with attachment.

[Anonymous]

Unless you count other adopted kids, no.

[Anonymous]

Yes. My best friend.

[Anonymous]

Do you mean immigrants or just other people of that specific ethnicity?

My internationally adopted child has my sister and me, her best friend and family, and other random people here and there in her life.

[Anonymous]

I don't see how it would interfere with attachment. I have an internationally adopted child and we have friends of all races.

[Anonymous]

I guess I could see how it would interfere with attachment if it were RIGHT in the beginning, much like right at the beginning you are supposed to provide all care, all the physical contact, etc etc etc.

That said, my DD who has been adoptioned internationally and been home with us for 2 years, has lots and lots of friends also from that same nationality, in her regular classroom at school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Curious, how much do you intermingle? A friend with a 3 year says She is afraid it would confuse her child at a young age with a international link and interfere with attachment.

Baloney. Do people who adopt domestically worry that their child being around other Americans will interfere with attachment? yes, DD has friends from her native country (not just other adoptees), and we have adult friends from that country. DD knows we are her parents, and knows we value and respect her country and culture.