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> at least somewhat common exception of au pairs if both halves of a couple work Wow this blows my mind TIL
by chrisseaton 5y ago
> at least somewhat common exception of au pairs if both halves of a couple work
Wow this blows my mind TIL
- ghaff 5y agoA quick Google tells me that there are 17,500 au pairs in the US in a given year. That's not a lot in the grand scheme of things but probably doesn't capture all live-in or otherwise more or less full-time child care arrangements. And of course, it's only an arrangement a couple will need for a bounded length of time. It's not very common much less routine but if I heard a presumably well-paid tech person tell me they had an au pair or nanny, it wouldn't cause me to think "They must have family money" or anything like that.