When Christine Banfield was stabbed to death in her Herndon-area home in 2023, her then-4-year-old daughter was in the basement. Now Fairfax County prosecutors want to use the young girl’s ...

I was nervous about hiring an au pair. I worried it would feel like raising another child. My choice wasn't so hard to make because of the savings in childcare and our move to a bigger home. Our ...

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.

The au pair who pleaded guilty in connection with a double homicide in Northern Virginia described the gruesome killings for prosecutors in a video entered as evidence during a recent hearing in the ...

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 ...

When new visa restrictions confirmed that new au pairs preparing to come to the United States wouldn’t be able to enter the country, the American families expecting them were left scrambling to find ...

For working parents seeking reliable, affordable childcare, an au pair can be an attractive option. Here’s how au pairs are paid and how they fit into the broader American childcare economy. An au ...