Your April 29 op-ed, “An Au Pair Could Take Care of Grandma,” raises a good idea. I became a single parent of three children, five years old and under, in 1990. The au-pair program was a life saver ...

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Working parents who depend on the nation’s au pair program to provide care for their children can breathe a sigh of relief: After receiving over 10,000 public comments, the Biden-Harris administration ...

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 ...

Maria Jose Vence said she looks back fondly on her experience as an au pair, when she worked 40 hours a week as a child care provider for a chance to experience life in the U.S. The 25-year-old from ...

Denaye Barahona is a parent and child therapist. She hired an au pair for the first time when her kids were 2 and 4 years old. She is especially grateful for the relationships this type of childcare ...

Her departure, documented in a now-viral TikTok, ended with an early flight home and a hard-earned lesson in trusting her gut One woman embarked on a dream au pair gig in Italy, only for it to turn ...