"Au pair companies set au pair wages at $195.75 per week for 45 hours of work, or $4.35 an hour—a number that comes fr…"

"Thousands of young people are admitted each year to the U.S. as cultural exchange participants through the J-1 visa p…"

"Many of the roughly 17,500 au pairs who live and work in the United States every year have positive experiences. But …"

"As they walk out the door each morning, working parents are grateful for the nannies who care for their children in t…"

"Cameron Lynne Macdonald, a former nanny and medical sociologist, found in research for her 2010 book, “Shadow Mothers…"

"Families and the child-care workers they hire share a complex relationship that merges the personal with the professi…"

"If you enjoy watching birds, you stand in good company. There are, in the estimate of the National Survey on Recreati…"

"Birds become more and more fascinating, not less, the more you watch them."

"It is a fun exercise among s to try to pinpoint a childhood moment when they deviated from the path of “ordinary” peo…"

"But since it was birders he was dealing with, there wasn’t any harm just letting us in on the honor system. There was…"