Child-care decisions can weigh heavily on a parent or parent-to-be. After all, you're choosing the people who will stand in for you while you're at work or taking care of other responsibilities. But ...

Becca Corneau and family with their first au pair, Louisa Gayer (left) When Emily Peters was pregnant with her third son, she found herself in a childcare predicament. Her home daycare provider was ...

My mother needs an au pair. Most of her friends do as well. In fact, most of my friends’ parents do, too. I suspect a myriad of American seniors are in same situation as my mother—healthy enough to ...