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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd like to know why the rematch process is given only 2 weeks by the agencies.[/quote]

The rule, as far as I understand it, is that a host parent has to HOUSE a rematch au pair for two weeks.  They are not necessarily required to go home if they haven't found a match after two weeks.  I know many au pairs who have stayed with friends or other host parents after their two week period was up.  This seems like a reasonable rule to me, as a host parent.  Having gone through a rematch, it's incredibly difficult for all parties to live with each other after having decided not to.  It's awkward for the au pair and the host parents, painful for the kids, a challenge if the host parents are matching with a new au pair (where to put both au pairs in the house if there is overlap?), etc.  It just doesn't make sense to require host parents to provide free housing to an au pair who has either decided to go into rematch or who the host parents have decided is unsafe or a bad fit for their family for an extended period of time until the au pair herself decides to match.

There are some LCCs that will take an au pair, but that's too much to ask LCCs too, particularly ones that have dozens of au pairs in the clusters.  The agencies could put the au pairs up in hotels or something, but when should be the limit of time?  That's the question really.  What would you think is fair?  And where should the au pair live in the meantime?[/quote]

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