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**geraint.faughn** · 05-06-2010, 12:09 PM

I don't know what a TCK is, but I can tell you from experience that kids who are immigrants from Russia (and I have a few in my parish), especially kids who come here as early/mid adolescents have an extremely difficult time adapting. In my experience they invariably end up in with the "wrong" crowd at school and elsewhere. The ONLY thing that has ever helped any of these kids get "back on track" (and I have a couple of glowing "success stories" in my parish) has been the Orthodox Church. Not even the prots can do what the Orthodox Church does for these kids because the Protestant culture is simply an extension of the North American culture that is at the root of their alienation issues.

Fr David

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_culture_kid aka TCK

This paragraph of yours is very familiar to me. Church was the ONLY stable thing in my life. There was always a church (in my case, an IFB church with a bus ministry) wherever we were stationed. Culture shock and adaptation, especially American, oh yeah! I have so been there. Most TCK have a more difficult time with the culture shock when returning stateside (to the States) than they do when leaving to go live in a foreign culture.

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geraint.faughn Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 443 Senior Member	I don't know what a TCK is, but I can tell you from experience that kids who are immigrants from Russia (and I have a few in my parish), especially kids who come here as early/mid adolescents have an extremely difficult time adapting. In my experience they invariably end up in with the "wrong" crowd at school and elsewhere. The ONLY thing that has ever helped any of these kids get "back on track" (and I have a couple of glowing "success stories" in my parish) has been the Orthodox Church. Not even the prots can do what the Orthodox Church does for these kids because the Protestant culture is simply an extension of the North American culture that is at the root of their alienation issues. Fr David http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_culture_kid aka TCK This paragraph of yours is very familiar to me. Church was the ONLY stable thing in my life. There was always a church (in my case, an IFB church with a bus ministry) wherever we were stationed. Culture shock and adaptation, especially American, oh yeah! I have so been there. Most TCK have a more difficult time with the culture shock when returning stateside (to the States) than they do when leaving to go live in a foreign culture.
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