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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I could use some advice. We are an upper middle class black/white interracial married couple trying to find ideal childcare for our first child before we go back to work. Where we live in DC nanny sharing is very popular and we know many people in the neighborhood who have been able to find a family to partner with with ease and in little time. However, we’ve been struggling for a while to find a similar arrangement for our fairly easy-going, sweet-natured infant. All of the people in the neighborhood we know who have done nanny sharing (and had assured us it would be easy to organize something similar for our family) have been white and the demographics of the neighborhood are such that there are very few non-white couples around us with the means to pay a lot for childcare (this is also born out by the demographics of the daycares and private preschools in the neighborhood). We’ve had good initial phone conversations with a few families who seemed to promptly ghost us once we gave them enough identifying information to be able to look us up and see what we look like.

I’m a little frustrated that I naively did not see this coming and now we may have to pay a lot more than we anticipated for a one-on-one nanny until a spot at our preferred daycare maybe opens up.

Has anyone ever navigated something similar? Any advice for networks we could potentially tap into to find similarly situated families? It would have been nice to find a family in our neighborhood but we now accept that we may also need to tap into our adjacent/surrounding communities for the right fit.
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You remind me of a woman I once worked with.  If someone said hello to someone else before saying hello to her then she screamed  discrimination.  [/quote]

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