ABSTRACT
This is the most important question the prospective parents must ask themselves. Depending on the parents’ circumstances and their plans for the future, they will regard different things as important. A couple who plan to stay only a few years in a country before returning to their mutual home country will want to plan differently from a family where one parent has immigrated permanently to the other’s country, or parents who want their child to speak a language which neither of them speak natively where a second language is introduced artificially. Some of the following considerations may be relevant.
