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My wife leaves every year for a month or two to visit family overseas. I feel she should hire someone to do her job while she is not here. You know cook, clean, laundry, cuddle, scoop out the chicken house,give the dogs a bath, the important stuff. Why should I have to do all my work and hers too just because she goes on vacation for a month or more? What are your feelings about this?

Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday signed a bill that will temporarily require overtime pay for domestic workers in California, after he vetoed a broader measure last year that critics said would have opened the door for government regulation of part-time baby-sitting. "Domestic workers are primarily women of color, many of them immigrants, and their work has not been respected in the past," the bill's author, Democratic Assemblyman Tom Ammiano of San Francisco, said in a statement. "Now, they will be entitled to overtime, like just about every other California working person."

New York (CNN) -- We were at a Manhattan water park when it happened. I was with my then 3-year-old daughter, Luna, playing in a sandpit on a foul, chilly morning beneath clouds that looked like ripped paper. It was no day to be outside, but living in a city of small apartments, it was no day to be inside with a child either. A little girl approached the two of us, clearly interested in playing. But when she arrived, she addressed only Luna. Pointing a finger at me, she asked her, "Is that your baby sitter?" I've been mistaken...

A new study by Harvard University is touting some of the benefits of illegal immigration, namely the fact that it has the effect of “driving down relative wages among high-skilled workers” and can increase “more tax dollars to the general coffers.” Hold it. I must have read that wrong. Nope. That’s right. Michael Kremer, the researcher, is Gates Professor of Developing Societies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, is an affiliate of the Center for International Development and has authored a paper titled “The Globalization of Household Production.”

SANTA ANA, Calif. - (KRT) - Summer Phillips' first word was "agua." Which would've been a big, fat nonevent if, at the time she said it, either of Summer's parents spoke Spanish. "Drove my husband crazy," says Susan Phillips, mother of Summer, 5, and Serenity, 6, and employer of Josefina, 48, the Spanish-speaking nanny who helps raise the girls in the Phillips' ocean-view, Corona del Mar home. "He's OK with it now, of course. We love it that they speak Spanish. But at first ... " As Phillips explains this, she turns and, in so-so Spanish, translates her conversation for...

Journalist Wanja Njuguna-Githinji and her housekeeper Alice Biketi moved to the Bay Area last year from Kenya with high hopes. Njuguna-Githinji, who won Africa's equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for her work exposing human-rights violations and corruption, had won a prestigious fellowship at Stanford University. Biketi, her employee of two years, agreed to come along, knowing she could make more money in one day than she made in one month in Kenya.