Logistics of Sending Your Child Abroad

This post is the third of a three-part series on sending young children abroad. If you’re just joining in, you may want to check out the first two parts:

  1. Sending Your Minor Child on a Trip Abroad
  2. Finding an International Host Family for a Minor Child

So, you’ve decided to send your child abroad and you have a potential family for her to stay with. What needs to happen now? We can boil the remaining tasks down to three major areas: preliminary research, information-gathering, and legalities, with a few added random tasks.

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Finding an International Host Family for a Minor Child

France three kids in a car
Road Trip!

This post is the second of a three-part series on sending your child abroad. Click here to read the first post.

Have you ever wished you had family abroad so your children could experience life in another culture? Too bad you can’t “wish” your in-laws across the pond, right? Even so, it doesn’t mean that you can’t create this amazing experience. Children between the ages of 11 and 18 are at a great age for a mind-expanding trip overseas. It will require more legwork, but it is absolutely do-able. There are two possible sources to tap into.

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