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[quote=Anonymous]It's possible the families are gravitating toward other white families due to comfort. I won't say it's not that because certainly that happens and it's often unconscious bias at work.

But I'll also say that at least in my DC neighborhood (Capitol Hill), being mixed race would be seen as a positive for a nanny share arrangement. People want their kids in diverse environments and that would be an easy way to ensure this. We have multiple friends who actively sought out nanny shares with families where one or both parents were native speakers of Spanish or French, with the intention of hiring a nanny fluent in that language and essentially creating a little immersion situation. This resulted in them joining shares with non-white families.

I guess it could depend on your neighborhood, but at least where I live, being non-white is seen as a bonus in forming nanny shares. I think it also helps cut back on the inherent guilt some people have about dynamics with the nanny, who is almost always not white.

Do you live in upper upper NW? That's the only part of DC I can think of where most of the families would be white and even there we know mixed and non-white families.[/quote]

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