ABSTRACT
Immigrants and naturalized citizens residing in the United States constitute the population most likely to travel with young children to developing countries. These periodic trips are often the only way relatives can maintain family relationships. Clinicians’ assessment of priorities and approaches to counseling are therefore very different from those for adults who are simply planning business or exotic leisure travel. The usual conservative approach must be tempered by consideration of more personal issues, otherwise parents would be strongly encouraged to delay exposing young children to serious health problems more prevalent in their (or their parents’) native countries.
