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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why should a poor au pair be afraid to report to her agency an unscrupulous family, and risk being sent home as a failure, if the agency fails to rematch her within their two week time limit? Please explain.

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Timing and Supply/Demand.

Even if she was the best au pair and the family is the worst...there's no guarantee that the timing would work to find her a new family.[/quote]
That makes ZERO sense. Every agency keeps a list of people waiting for au pairs, no?[/quote]

Let's be clear that not all Au Pairs are in rematch because they were abused by their families. If they were, the family should be kicked out of the program.
I have seen many rematches simply bc the Au Pair was ill-equiped for the job, and perhaps came the USA with different priorities. You are correct, the agency does have records of existing and prospective families, but some families like ours, would rather welcome a new Au Pair from abroad every year. [/quote]

We are a family in rematch right now.  Our AP had two car accidents in under two weeks, so we decided to part ways with her.  Surprisingly, another family decided they wanted her and will have her drive for them (for which they had to sign a waiver with the agency, since she has two accidents on her record), so she is being rematched.  But we are not thrilled with the candidates currently available in rematch so are looking out of country instead.  HFs get access to the notes on why an AP is in rematch, and we get three versions: the HF's version, the AP's version, and the LCC's version.  In some cases, all three tell the same story.  In others, there are differing versions.  HFs can read where the AP feels she has been wronged by a family and can also read where the LCC agrees (this happens more than some people on here imagine).  HFs can also read where the previous HF found an AP ill-equipped to handle the AP job.  For our family, we would rather not risk an AP whose write-up suggests that she felt overwhelmed by the challenges of day-to-day childcare.  Our job is relatively easy and our hours relatively few (25), but it is a 5 day-a-week job, and someone who feels overwhelmed by children day in and day out isn't a good fit for us.  So the AP who was overwhelmed by the job in her previous family may well be sent home because there is one fewer family (ours) available for in-country matching.[/quote]

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