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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I'm an AA MB, and I get the same surprised responses.  I don't know why that is, but I will say that every other woman I know with a nanny (friends, work colleagues) is white, so I am never surprised that nanny candidates are surprised.  For some of the PPs, I will say I don't think AA employers are cheap.  I'm not going to scream racist, but that is kind of a harsh conclusion to come to right out of the gate.  In my own family, I will say culturally a nanny is not what we usually do.  My relatives send their kids to daycare, and they were surprised when we decided to hire a nanny too.  It isn't always a matter of what one can afford (though of course that is it in some cases), but more a matter of what one is used to seeing.  Most of my family only ever knew of nannies from television.  They tend toward home daycare providers (and in fact one woman in my family IS a home daycare provider) and family or daycare centers when all else fails.  Entirely a culture thing, as far as I can tell.[/quote]

I'm the PP I believe you were referring to. My point was not that AA employers are cheap. I was trying to make the connection that its not what is normally done, so they have little knowledge of how it works. So the families that do attempt to go the nanny route often make te mistake of offering to pay what one might pay a family member or friend to watch their child. They know what they see of nannies on TV and are expecting Alice from the Brady Bunch (cook, clean, drive, laundry, the whole 9) but are not expecting the sticker shock that comes with it. These are the families I see posting their ad every other week offering the same $150 as the revolving door goes round and round. [/quote]

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