President Joe Biden's administration is currently considering new regulations that will deny middle-class and upper-middle-class Americans crucial child care services, specifically hampering their ...

America has a caregiver problem. Democrats and Republicans both want the federal government to do something to help families struggling to afford the high costs of child care and elder care. The ...

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 ...

America has a caregiver problem. Democrats and Republicans both want the federal government to do something to help families struggling to afford the high costs of child care and elder care. The ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — Davis and Glen Griffin of Houston, Texas, say having a live-in au pair to care for their three children has been a lifesaver. “We would not have survived the pandemic if it hadn't been for ...

Davis and Glen Griffin, their three kids and their former au pair Myra. — Courtesy of David Griffin (NEW YORK) — Davis and Glen Griffin of Houston, Texas, say having a live-in au pair to care for ...

When Melanie Rosen and her husband sat down to consider childcare options for their two children — then aged 1 and 3 — as she prepared to return to work full-time, the situation at first looked bleak.

Liza came to my family from Ukraine in 2015 after Russia invaded her homeland. Seeking safety and opportunity in America, she applied for and was accepted into the U.S. au pair program, lived with us ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. My mother needs an au pair. Most of her friends do as well. In fact, most of my ...