Parents and nannies across the country can't stop talking and thinking about the horrible murders of two children in a luxury Upper East Side apartment building in New York.
Police say the nanny stabbed the children to death, and then tried to kill herself when the mother showed up to find the boy and girl dead in a bathtub. The Nanny survived.
This family had not just done a background check on the nanny before they hired her, they went to the Dominican Republic for a six day visit to meet with her family, to make sure their kids would be safe with her.
Now parents everywhere are questioning their own nannies, and nannies are afraid too, sharing a collective guilt for an act they didn't have anything to do with.
"The most difficult relationship in the world", one mother describes it in a Wall Street Journal story this morning.
But the big story is the nagging questions being asked by any parents who depend on outside assistance for child-rearing: If a wealthy family living in an $11,000 a month apartment, with access to the very best can end up with a nanny who kills, what can I possible do to protect my children?
And although I have not seen or heard it yet, I am sure there are some people murmuring "they should be staying at home taking care of their own kids, not farming out their motherhood obligations." Watch for it.
Police say the nanny stabbed the children to death, and then tried to kill herself when the mother showed up to find the boy and girl dead in a bathtub. The Nanny survived.
This family had not just done a background check on the nanny before they hired her, they went to the Dominican Republic for a six day visit to meet with her family, to make sure their kids would be safe with her.
Now parents everywhere are questioning their own nannies, and nannies are afraid too, sharing a collective guilt for an act they didn't have anything to do with."The most difficult relationship in the world", one mother describes it in a Wall Street Journal story this morning.
But the big story is the nagging questions being asked by any parents who depend on outside assistance for child-rearing: If a wealthy family living in an $11,000 a month apartment, with access to the very best can end up with a nanny who kills, what can I possible do to protect my children?
And although I have not seen or heard it yet, I am sure there are some people murmuring "they should be staying at home taking care of their own kids, not farming out their motherhood obligations." Watch for it.
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