Whois & Analysis for urbansitter.com

UrbanSitter is a San Francisco-based online service and mobile app that allows parents to search for, book, pay, review, and recommend babysitters and nannies.

UrbanSitter integrates with Facebook Connect and an internal database, allowing parents to view babysitters hired and reviewed by their Facebook friends and parents from children's schools, sports teams, and local parenting organizations.

The company's online booking technology lets parents search for babysitters by specific time and date and schedule a booking.

Alternatively, parents can post a job to a virtual job board.

To date the company has raised a total of $22.75 million in venture funding.

Babysitting is temporarily caring for a child.

Babysitting can be a paid job for all ages; however, it is best known as a temporary activity for young teenagers who are too young to be eligible for employment in the general economy.

It provides autonomy from parental control, and spending money, as well as an introduction to the techniques of child care.

It emerged as a social role for teenagers in the 1920s, and became especially important in suburban America in the 1950s and 1960s, when there was an abundance of small children.

It stimulated an outpouring of folk culture in the form of urban legends, pulp novels, and horror films.

A nanny, childminder, child care provider, or mother's helper is an individual who provides care for one or more children in a family as a service.

Traditionally, nannies were servants in large households and reported directly to the lady of the house.

Today, modern nannies, like other domestic workers, may live in or out of the house depending on their circumstances and those of their employers.

Professional nannies are usually certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, qualified in First Aid, and have a degree or extensive training in child development.

There are many employment agencies that specialize in childcare and online services that aid in finding available nannies.

Child care or childcare, child minding, daycare, or preschool is the caring for and supervision of a child or children, usually from age six weeks to age thirteen.

Child care is the action or skill of looking after children by a day-care center, babysitter, or other providers.

Child care can also include advanced learning environments that include early childhood education.

Child care is a broad topic covering a wide spectrum of contexts, activities, social and cultural conventions, and institutions.

The majority of child care institutions that are available require that child care providers have extensive training in first aid and are CPR certified.

In addition, background checks, drug testing at all centers, and reference verification are normally a requirement.

Child care can cost up to $15,000 for one year in the United States.

The average annual cost of full-time care for an infant.

A parent is a caregiver of the offspring in their own species.

In humans, a parent is the caretaker of a child (where "child" refers to offspring, not necessarily age).

A biological parent is a person whose gamete resulted in a child, a male through the sperm, and a female through the ovum.

Parents are first-degree relatives and have 50% genetic meet.

A female can also become a parent through surrogacy.

Some parents may be adoptive parents, who nurture and raise an offspring, but are not actually biologically related to the child.

Orphans without adoptive parents can be raised by their grandparents or other family members.