Good News for TCK/MK's

According to this article, Third Culture Kids (MK's fall into this category, too, of course) have the following things going for them:

[C]hildren who spend just one year overseas are four times more likely to gain a bachelor’s degree than their domestic peers, and 40 percent of them will go on to earn a master’s degree. Sixty percent return to a life overseas, 80 percent with a second language, working in jobs that require travel and reflect their lives spent abroad. They become newspaper and magazine writers, speakers, counselors, teachers, professors, volunteers, active church members, leaders, business people—jobs that utilize both the Third Culture Kids high level of education and well-practiced people skills. And as a reflection of both their creativity and risk taking from life overseas, some of these young people grow up to join the other 1/3 of the adult TCK population as self-employed people, presidents of their own companies. Most keep their passport current and are eager to live abroad again.

Sixty percent of TCK later marry, two out of three marry only once and not until after the age of twenty-five. They have been found to incorporate their international experiences with raising their children by instilling the values that they themselves learned as expat kids living overseas: respect for other people no matter what the race, creed or culture of the individual and embracing the differences of others.