Child-care decisions can weigh heavily on a parent or parent-to-be. After all, you're choosing the people who will stand in for you while you're at work or taking care of other responsibilities. But ...

I was nervous about hiring an au pair. I worried it would feel like raising another child. My choice wasn't so hard to make because of the savings in childcare and our move to a bigger home. Our ...

It started with an email. With an effortless click into an unread message, Neila Santana, a Brazilian au pair, was introduced to a tragic chapter of life for a central Pennsylvania family. When Mary ...

CLERMONT — Anna Vast of Sweden has found a way to make work child’s play, with the added bonus of travel. Vast, an au pair, is helping a Lake County family find a solution to the problem of child care ...

Families who count on au pairs to care for their children are scrambling to find a way to pay them significantly more, or find alternative arrangements, in the wake of a federal court ruling that au ...

If you are considering traveling to a new country to work as an au pair, take a look into our list of the 10 highest paying countries for au pairs. While you’re at it, also feel free to check out our ...

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Kristen Kitchen, left, and Wendy Pérez, right, taking care of Kitchen’s three young children in her Northampton home. Pérez came to the United States through the federal au pair program to learn ...

Underpaid au pairs who have worked in homes across America, taking care of children, often cooking, cleaning, playing chauffeur and providing a range of other duties, will finally receive back pay ...