Babysitters and Nannies Needed More Than Ever

Babysitters and Nannies Needed More Than Ever.

TV1 Sunday documentary on Sunday 22nd July featured an item on the amount of time that New Zealanders are working, with statistics on the high percentage of families with both parents working and many families now having both parents working a total of 100 hours or more a week.

The 20 hours of so called free childcare a week isn't working, these factors are evidenced by the growth of the website business Babysitters4u.

Babysitters4u ( www.babysitters4u.co.nz ) is a free service and the first in New Zealand, provided to parents, babysitters and nannies where they are put them in touch with each other via an online database. There are a huge number of parents looking for childcare and thousands of child carers looking for work. They are introduced to each other, the rest is up to them.

The website was launched in November 2006 and in only 8 months has attracted thousands of members with little or no advertising or media coverage.

This is evidence of a huge problem in New Zealand, the fabric of society has changed considerably, babysitters and nannies are no longer someone needed for a night at the movies or a meal out, they are needed to enable both parents to work to put a meal on the table and schooling for their children. As suburbs have become large impersonal sprawling dormitories for working families, people often don't have the local community structure of old, where they could use the teenage child from around the corner to look after their children. They turn to Babysitters4u for solutions.

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