My kids are both bilingual. My wife and I are both American, so it was strictly a choice that we made on the basis of having a desire to bring up children that

My kids are both bilingual. My wife and I are both American, so it was strictly a choice that we made on the basis of having a desire to bring up children that had a less parochial look on the world. Raising children bilingual (i.e. sending them to a bilingual school) at an early age, they both became bilingual with relatively little pain. We never viewed this as a means to increasing their earnings potential (at least not a direct consequence - it's always possible that they alleged mental benefits of bilingualism has some effect) and I have no way to make a judgement as to whether it will. They both do very well in their school work, but once again, I can't determine if bilingualism had anything to do with that. At this point neither of them has any desire to pursue any opportunities that would use their bilingualism, but they're still both teenagers and that could change at some point.