Part 2
A ‘Great Fit’ for Families, But Some Au Pairs Struggle to Get By
Maryland Katerinee Rodriguez majored in international relations in her native Mexico. Now, she works as an au pair for host mom Gitika Kaul in a Washington, D.C. suburb. The au pair is a “great fit” for her two children, Kaul says. But while Rodriguez loves the work and family, she says the pay is so low that she has to ask for money from her family in Mexico.
“The response to the child care crisis in America is not to have exploitable migrant workers who are underpaid.”
