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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These costs are outrageous. You guys would do better just getting au pairs over from the Caribbean. Combines cheaper domestic help and nanny into one. Significantly less in the long run.

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Sorry, when I said au pair, I didn't mean the agency run establishments that just match names to families like what happened to this poor girl:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/03/20/au-pairs-provide-cheap-childcare-maybe-illegally-cheap/

I was referring to directly inviting over domestic help for yourself rather than through large agencies. The key is to network, and many ways to go about this. Ask the many happy families in Florida and New York  :wink: [/quote]

So you are taking about an illegal alternative?

There clearly are some bad situations and it sounds like the agencies may be problematic, but there are rules to protect au pairs and they are not supposed to be maids, this is time limited child care (45 hours/week) and with room and board in addition to the stipend.  I know families where this has worked well and also have friends that went overseas as au pairs and it changed the direction of their lives for the better.  I would think going through the state department endorsed programs would be better protections for the au pairs.[/quote]

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