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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Enjoy, Trump voters![/quote]

Who cares? Au Pairs seem to hate the program, host parents are disappointed at least 50% of the time judging by rematch rates, and there have been too many legal challenges to the program for it to be a safe bet for parents just looking for child care.  Good riddance. Most professionals are working from home now anyway, and they won't have to worry about giving someone "the best year" during a pandemic.  [/quote]

What on earth are you talking about?  Our au pairs have become like family to us.  Our kids adore them.  Each au pair has stayed with us for two years and declared it the best experience of their lives.  They've each gone home and gotten good professional jobs because of their fluency in English.  It is great for many.

Professionals can't work from home with young kids without childcare indefinitely, nor while homeschooling.  It just doesn't work.  Having live in care (no exposure risk) during the pandemic has been amazing for our family.[/quote]

I'm glad its working for you.  Once the pandemic is over, you can get more au pairs.  It's not exactly a crisis.   [/quote]We had a new au pair arriving in few weeks.  Now she can't come.  We have no childcare.  She has been planning this for a year and already quit her job and gave up her apartment to come, so she's unemployed and homeless.  It's pretty darn close to a crisis for us and her.[/quote]

Exactly. This sucks. Without full time school in the fall, how are people ever going to get back to work without options for childcare?[/quote]

Only .03% of American families with children use au pairs. Which is to say rhat while APs are an option, they so rare as to be statistically irrelevant to the search for child care.  The intent of the order was to increase work opportunities for Americans.  Lots of displaced waitresses would love to have that job. Au Pairs are really just here for fun. I mean, we are all trying yo pull together as a country and help each other out right? [/quote]

Hmm, not everyone wants a “displaced waitress” for childcare.

I have lots of lovely waitress friends and they all like kids on a superficial level and they would have no problem baby-sitting for 3 hours on a Saturday but  looking after kids for 45hours is very different. Au pairs might be here for fun, but if you filtered the APs properly it wasn’t that hard to find qualified childcare with lots of experience with kids that a waitress simply doesn’t have. Also most independent adults who are not used to childcare might absolutely dread being home with kids PLUS the parents. It’s not like anyone right now working as a nanny or else will have the normal/ideal nanny conditions.  I can’t see people who aren’t used to working with kids being reliable.

I can see lots of people thinking that’s what they want to do because they “like kids” and then realizing looking after kids full time during Covid isn’t fun and quitting after a bit, leaving parents in a tight spot.

Finding reliable local childcare is hard on good days, let alone right now, where qualified childcare is rare gold and everybody else is just winging it.

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I’m also a hard pass on a “displaced waitress”. Au pairs have minimum childcare hour requirements and references in order to even be eligible for the program. Your average furloughed retail worker or waitress simply isn’t qualified to work with children all day.[/quote]

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