anchor child
n.— «They are “anchor children,” saddled with the extra burden of having to attain a financial foothold in America to sponsor family members who remain in Vietnam.» —“A Profile of a Lost Generation” Los Angeles Times Magazne Dec. 13, 1987. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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