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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“APs are NOT household servants; re-read it: NOT HOUSEHOLD SERVANTS. You’re welcome! 
It costs parents b/c they sign up for the program, didn’t you know that? Also, I’m sure you know HFs paid the fee to the agency and not directly to APs. Most APs aren’t here for the experience, not sure who told you otherwise. You certainly are unknown of the true intentions of them.”

No au pairs are not house servants, nor are the host family running a hotel for you.  Why did you come to the US?  So that you can leave you country and try to move to the US???  People in the US have to WORK for what we get, and we are paying you as an au pair to watch our children, which you agreed to do when you signed on.  You also need to clean up after yourself.

I have had au pairs and was considering doing so again, until I read this thread.  definitely not worth the headache…. [/quote]

Those fees have nothing to do with the AP.  What does, is how much you pay them weekly.  You already have an extra room in your house so housing costs you nothing extra, so just food.[/quote]

Bless your heart. I understand that you think the only fees that matter is the money that goes into an Au pair’s pocket. My kids would probably have the same understanding. I’m not advocating for the Au pair program, but thinking the fees paid to the agency - which benefit both the AP and the family - and the fees that the families pay for the sole benefit of the Au pair (car insurance premiums, food, utilities) “don’t matter” is pure ignorance. You sound young and inexperienced.

And yes most families probably do have a spare room (ie, they don’t buy a larger, more expensive house specifically to house an AP), but they are unable to use that room for the entire year - to their inconvenience.

I guess when you’re a big girl you can buy a house and host a bunch of randos since it doesn’t cost you anything. [/quote]

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