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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If this goes through, does that mean the new stipend can go as high as $765 per week?

If so, that effectively all but kills the program in DC entirely.[/quote]

Why? I thought this was about the cultural exchange, not cheap childcare? [/quote]

If you are posting this, you are a troll. If you are a host parent, you know that the majority of the costs of hosting an au pair are not transactional items. If you sit down and quantify the costs of housing, car insurance, vacations, food, extras, bonuses, random crisis situations of a person living with you in their 20s, it is not cheap childcare and it also would be far more expensive than other forms of childcare with a $765 stipend as well.

For many host families, it's an opportunity to broaden our often close-minded american minds by hosting someone from a different culture and to leverage the one thing of value that we have that can help off-set childcare costs: an extra bedroom.

There are other ways for a young person from Brazil or Germany to see the US. You could stay at hostels and travel around the US and hike. You could come here as a student or in a work/visa program. Why become an au pair? Because you are leveraging the things that make a visa within your reach. Your age and your limited childcare experience. If you had the money to simply fly here on a tourist visa and travel around, you wouldn't be an au pair.

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Oh come on, someone posting asking if the reason people do this for cheap childcare is not a troll.  I personally think that it is about cheap childcare, no matter how much you protest about the extra perks you pay for.  If the room was worth as much as you claim, you could rent it out separately and hire a nanny, but you don't.  [/quote]

'it's cheap childcare no matter how expensive it actually costs'

You are 100% a troll. [/quote]

Lol. Whatever helps you feel better about paying sub minimum wage. “Oh I pay $100/month for her cell phone and a few $100/month for her food, I am not exploiting young foreigners dying to come to the US.”  “Anyone disagreeing with me is a troll, and not just someone with a different opinion”[/quote]

It’s a market economy. If your services were so valuable then you could work elsewhere and get paid more. Clearly they’re not. [/quote]

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