<p>… has merely confirmed for me that there is a very small minority of American parents who have some sort of problem.
We have hosted a number of his fellow students from Stanford and their parents at our home in England and have had only positive experiences.</p>
<p>We have also sort of " picked up"a number of American college kids on semesters abroad and said
( and carried through) with hey come and stay with us in Surrey for a couple of days. Never did we encounter the sort of attitude expressed by a minority of posters on CC.</p>
<p>I am also happy to say that my youngest son has been welcomed with open arms by his fellow students at Stanford, and by their parents at American Thanksgiving. In the New Year we are expecting three Stanford students to be occupying our house (part-time) whilst on their semesters abroad.</p>