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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, OP, we sent our au pair into rematch for essentially the reasons you described.  My husband was furloughed and will be at home with our child for at least the next couple of months.  Although I have a high-paying job, we did not see any reason to incur the extra expenses for childcare while we had a parent at home.  Although we think my job is stable, who knows what the world will look like a few months from now.  Better to save money while we can.

Although our AP seems to understand the gravity of the situation more than your AP does, we also felt that we'd inevitably reach a point where she'd want to leave the house to have some contact with other people her age.  We were not willing to continue in a living situation where we'd have to negotiate with her about whether she could see her friends.  The household is only as safe as its least cautious member.  It's easier for us, in middle age, not to go out.  We can sit on the front porch and talk to our neighbors.  Not the same situation for her.

Plus one more person in the house means more frequent trips to the grocery store, the pharmacy, etc.  In other words, more risk.

Our AP has less than four months left, and we were also concerned we'd have a holdover situation if international restrictions tightened and she could not return to her home country.  We did not want her staying past the end of her term.

We advised our AP that life in the U.S. was about to get very difficult, and that she should go home while she could.  But she really did not want to leave and ended up rematching with another family locally.  It sounded like a lot of au pairs left, and there are families out there that are desperate for childcare.  If you want to let your AP go, she shouldn't have trouble rematching.  But you might want to advise her that a new host family might not be willing to take on an AP who has been out and about.  That was true for my AP's new family.  The mom asked lots of questions about where she had been these past 2 weeks.[/quote]

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