We are a very conservative family and explained to our au pair during the initial interviews and selection process that we are not looking for an au pair who is coming to America to party and spend late nights out in American bars.  Our au pair told us she was also very conservative and did not embrace the party-girl lifestyle.  For the first 5-6 months, this appeared to be true,<-- Read more -->

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We are a first time host family ...had a 5 week experience with a young lady who decided it wasnt what she expected and went home..so..after rematching we now have a lovely girl from Columbia.<-- Read more -->

We had our au pair open a bank account to make it easier to pay her by check.  The bank has one of those "you must take money out at least 5x per month" policies if you don't want to get charged the $6/mo service fee.  She doesn't spend a lot of money, so she figured that she'd use her bank card for meals when outside the house for class.  On the evenings our au pa<-- Read more -->

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