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This is literally NEVER true. Definitionally, the program does not pull from impoverished countries. Middle income at absolute poorest. My au pairs have come from Western Europe. At least one came from a family richer than us (owned a vineyard). [/quote]

Many APs are from Columbia, Thailand, China, SA...even young women from western Europe are not from wealthy families, otherwise why would they allow their children to do this....c'mon this was addressed very early in the thread...your child may take a gap year, but not to become a domestic servant in Europe...[/quote]

And these are not “impoverished countries.” As I said, middle income at absolute poorest. I can’t even imagine a worldly person claiming with a straight face that South African au pairs are being plucked out of poverty.

And yes my children may well become au pairs in Europe as a gap year. Many of my friends in college had been au pairs. [/quote]

I was an au pair in europe and I’m from a wealthy family. I did it to have the experience of living abroad but not being tied to school, I became more fluent in a foreign language and I had a wonderful experience. I also nannied during college and graduate school because I love kids. Now I have 3 children and have hosted au pairs to help my kids become bilingual as well as have a wonderful experience with “big sisters” who they adore. We don’t consider our au pairs servants, they are cherished friends and become members of our family. They don’t do any housework I don’t do myself. All of our au pairs have been from middle or umc, professional families. They were all either in the middle of or finished with college and returned to get additional degrees. One is now a journalist, another an interpreter for a multinational company, and the others are in school and will end up with advanced degrees. [/quote]

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