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[quote=Anonymous]If you know the parents and like them, I'd say yes, absolutely.

I lived in China for five years after college. 
  
   I'd make sure he had his Hepatitis A immunization and let him go!
 
 If his family is here, I am sure they are educated and are not poor. In general, parents are more protective of kids in China than they are here. And they're taking on a huge responsibility taking your son, so they must feel confident. I would let him go, if it's a good friend. I'm sure it will be hard at times (culture shock, and just missing your family, same as with a sleepaway camp.) But it will also be amazing, and broaden his world view, and his sense of his own place in the world. If he put the presentation together with his friend, that shows a great deal of interest and motivation on his part that I'd respect.

Yes, if it were my kid I'd be paranoid (about things like traffic accidents) but I'd be worried about things like that if my kid went with someone else to somewhere in the US for a month too.[/quote]

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