Critics will likely welcome the
current decline in international adoptions, citing concerns that foreign adoptions remove children from their «
birth culture», exploit poor
birth mothers and enable illicit child trafficking.
Head Start and Early Head Start Head Start have addressed cultural and linguistic competence through the Head Start Program Performance Standards (Office of Head Start,
current) and the more recently revised «Revisiting and Updating the Multicultural Principles for Head Start Programs Serving Children Ages
Birth to Five: Addressing
Culture and Home Language in Head Start Program Systems & Services» (Early Head Start National Resource Center @ ZERO TO THREE, 2010).