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The Truth About Mothers and Nannies
Bloomsbury USA
June 2007
On Sale: May 29, 2007
240 pages
ISBN: 1582344078
EAN: 9781582344072
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Lucy Kaylin has written a book that begins with the
watershed moment in a mother’s life—when she decides to hire
a proxy to care for her children. Given that it’s not only
affluent women who turn to nannies anymore, this arrangement
is also a watershed in the history of women’s rights. Women
now have choices. And therein lies the problem. Having
choices has forced women to confront their feelings about
motherhood and work, and to make difficult decisions
requiring wrenching sacrifice. It’s a murky, ambivalent
time, and nowhere is that ambivalence more acutely expressed
than in a working mother’s relationships with her children’s
nanny, who serves such a precious function in the private
space that is the family home. Lucy Kaylin, an experienced
journalist who has interviewed prominent newsmakers of every
stripe, isn’t afraid to ask the tough questions to get to
the heart of this complex relationship. She looks at the
nanny/mother relationship from both sides. As a working
mother who hired a babysitter of her own, she knows the
process intimately. Kaylin exposes both the great joys and
the difficult emotional issues that play out when working
women invite perfect strangers into their homes to help care
for their children.
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