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[quote=Anonymous]No, I do not misunderstand AT ALL. Certainly loss of native language is traumatic---I am not claiming that it isn't. But at this point, I am making a deliberate choice as a parent regarding family priorities. I would only be able to preserve my children's mother tongue by awakening them at 7 AM every saturday to drive 40 minutes to attend language school---and forcing them to forego team soccer---which they love and which gives them confidence---in order to do so. There may be people who believe than an internationally adopted child can only be truly emotionally healthy if their mother tongue is maintained. I think an adopted child's emotional health is a much more complicated calculus than that single lens view. [/quote]
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