spent 7 months working as an Au-pair in England for a single mother and her three children. At first things went really well, but within 2 months, she stopped coming home on time and providing vital things for the house, such as food (- honest to god, I was left with a tenner a week to find a family of 5, because she refused to cook and had barely anything in the house). I became a Mother to the children because they had no contact with their own. It wasn’t a situation I was comfortable with, but felt I had no choice but to live with it. The deal breaker came, when she told me she was going on holiday for 3 weeks, on her own, to meet her internet boyfriend in America, and that I would be left with the children. By the time I left, Social Services were following up a complaint made by the children’s school regarding parental neglect.