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Hazards of Rearing Children in Foreign Countries

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.8.992

Overseas living complicates the tasks of child rearing in unique ways. Some complications may result in overt psychiatric disorders, others in character distortions of varying degrees. Many of them can be avoided, minimized, or resolved through anticipation, open discussion, informed planning, and decisive action. Issues of recurring clinical importance include unusual child-rearing practices, problems with caretakers, aberrant sexuality, fears, and alienation.

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