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Let's just do away with the program. It was great while it lastest and best when it was seen as an exchange program rather than a work and travel program. It will be forgotten in a decade. Maybe children will remember the times when they had aupairs and maybe in 20/30 years, when today's children have children of their own they will remember how nice it was to have an aupair but really? The childcare market will adapt. Daycares will change hours because there is demand. Employers will have to handle more parents working part time, coming later, leaving earlier or calling out because their kids are sick. People will need to stop moving away from their home town for college or work because they need at least one set of parents closeby so that granny and grandpa can watch the kids after school (let's just hope everybody had kids in their 30s and granny and grandpa are already retired). Let's go back to mothers staying home or only working part-time because (flexible) childcare isn't available. It will work itself out. I'd be sad to see it go because I have seen so many wonderful examples of what the program can do... but with how the world turns at the moment? I just can't see it.[/quote]

While I do see the program ending if the plaintiffs prevail in this lawsuit, I don't see it changing the demographics of the country ( i.e. where people live), daycare hours, or the work schedules of working parents.  I think it just makes life a little harder for those HFs who benefitted from the program.  But I think we're the ones who will have to adapt, not employers or day care.  I can imagine nannies getting even more demanding in terms of $$ because, like it or not, APs "compete" with nannies in many areas.  How many APs are there in the US at one time anyway?   [/quote]

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