Continued from the previous post.

It is more than a little likely that if your kids were born in China, Guatemala, Peru or Russia, for example, their birth families were speaking something other than Mandarin, Spanish or Russian at home, and perhaps wouldn't be able to understand a word of the language many would assume would strike a familiar note in their children.

Since our kids often are often born in the more marginalized populations of the countries they come... more

One hit I've heard international adoption take more than once involves the usually inevitable consequence of moving a child from one country to another that means a loss of access for the child to the language of his birth family, country and culture.

It's a common theme on adult adoptee boards, and there is no shortage of resentment over the fact that a visit to a birth country is complicated by an inability to communicate in the native language.

Language is one of the great treasures of culture and a tie that can bind people together even more strongly... more