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	Third Culture Kids: Prototypes for Understanding Other Cross-Cultural Kids by Ruth Van Reken and Paulette Bethel Article Abstract For reprints, please e-mail imqeditor@american.edu
With the increased mobility and cultural mixing of today's world, a childhood lived in, among, and between various cultures is no longer rare but has become the norm for children from a wide variety of backgrounds. The question is how those in the intercultural and social science fields can best evaluate the long-term outcome of this global change for the individual as well as for society. The authors propose and discuss a new term to examine and understand this issue, called a Cross-Cultural Kid (CCK). The authors define a CCK as a person who has lived in- or meaningfully interacted with- two or more cultural environments for a significant period of time during developmental years. The authors discuss the implications of this term, and suggest future directions for research with this new concept in hand.