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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Host families are apparently worse:
www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/au-pair-program-abuse-state-department-214956

Many of the roughly 17,500 au pairs who live and work in the United States every year have positive experiences. But according to a dozen current and former au pairs as well as former au pair company employees, ordeals aren’t unusual, either. They relay horror stories of au pairs who are overworked, humiliated, refused meals, threatened with arrest and deportation—even victims of theft. Worst of all, they say, complaining about exploitative, unsafe working conditions rarely makes any difference. Sometimes, reporting abuse makes the situation worse.[/quote]
You're concluding that host families are worse because of a sample of 12 out of 17,500?  I strongly support forcing agencies to step up and do a better job, but there are problems on both sides.[/quote]

If you really were a host mother and knew other host mothers, you know that many do not respect the program rules. So you know better.[/quote]Actually, I don't.  All of the families I know are very conscientious about the rules.  Some will occasionally pay extra for babysitting, but that's with mutual ageeement.  I've never hear of abuse outside of a few news articles.  Not from other host families or the many au pairs I know.

We did have one au pair accuse us of going over hours.  She'd complain on Instagram that she'd worked 50 hours.  It wasn't true at all.  She just couldn't do math and had a personality that always needed something to complain about for attention.  She worked 35 hours that week.[/quote]

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