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[quote=Anonymous]We are a foreign service family living overseas. We have many friends who have lived at posts like the one OP describes, where ordinary middle class Americans can finally afford to have help.

Think of it this way, if you could get full-time help for $400/month, why wouldn't you? I'm sure OP and her friends pay at least the norm for the area and probably more. Where I live everyone wants to work for US and diplomatic families because they pay better than the locals. Why wouldn't you want to offer someone the ability to earn a living? If she didn't employ her nanny/housekeeper they would just work for someone else, assuming they could find work.

I work part-time so my nanny just comes afternoons. Sometimes I come home early but she still stays for the hours we agreed on and I don't send her home early because I know she wants to get paid. Sometimes I will spend time with one kid while she plays with the other, or she will do some light housekeeping while I do something with both. Sometimes we all go to the park together and I appreciate an extra set of hands as we are crossing busy roads and an extra pair of eyes when they run in opposite directions on the playground.

Lay off, haters.[/quote]

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