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by sundaymorningstaple » Mon, 16 May 2005 1:32 pm
ferngirl,
The obvious solution is to give your daughter dual citizenship until she is 21 and always let her know that she will eventually make a choice when she reaches there.
What I don't suggest is that you try "to decide what her best options are" as ultimately you cannot live her life for her. Who knows, she may fall in love with a singaporean guy and want to get married and stay here? What then, you are going to forbid it?
I pose these questions because I have already been in the same situation with my own daughter who has dual citizenship. (US & SG) At the end of the day it has to be her choice. (mine is choosing SG because she is marrying a local boy). Of course she has been here her entire life with only visits to the US (she has never actually lived there so she feels more at home here. Am I confortable with her decision? That's another story. But, as I said, she has to live her own life. (I've been here for 23 years myself, my parents are in the US).
sms
SOME PEOPLE TRY TO TURN BACK THEIR ODOMETERS. NOT ME. I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHY I LOOK THIS WAY. I'VE TRAVELED A LONG WAY, AND SOME OF THE ROADS WEREN'T PAVED. ~ Will Rogers