nfgo3: this is in response to the 5 points you mentioned above:
I currently live in Israel. The girls here are looking for work so that they can have some pocket money, and so that they can purchase things that they want and are not necessities. Finding a babyisitter is easy: just knock on any neighbors door. All the girls want the job. They are therefore willing to work. And you can say that if they don’t want the job, let someone else do it.
However, where I grew up, in New York, it was different. As a girl, I did not specifically have any interest in babysitting. I did not want or need anyone else’s money, because my father gave me whatever I wanted. I was babysitting as a favor to those who asked me, only because they begged and I knew they had no one else. The money was just extra. I was not desperate for the job. But it made no difference to me whether my homework was done in my house or my neighbors, so I went. No, I did not mind if a baby woke up crying. That’s what I went for. But I didn’t agree to go if I knew the kids would all be up. Because I wanted to talk on the phone and do homework. When I said no, the people were upset. So stating that it wasn’t a favor and I wasn’t being paid to do homework isn’t true either.