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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Americans don't like maids and nannies because y'all feel that the job is somehow demeaning, and having domestic help is "putting on airs" and "getting uppity." Well, it's not. It's an honorable way to make a living, taking care of and loving infants and children. the same person who judges someone for having the means to afford domestic help has no problem ordering around an overworked minimum wage worker in some fast food joint working 3 jobs trying to support a wife a kid. That worker probably has, dollar for earned dollar, a way more financially insecure and exploited life than a private nanny. [/quote]

I don't think the job is demeaning.  I WOH full time, had a nanny when my son was younger.  I do judge parents who use the nanny to spend as little time with their kids as possible.  An acquantiance of mine has a full time nanny during the work day (totally normal) and a part time nanny so that she can go out and socialize in the evening and on the weekend.  An occasional babysitter is just fine, but every evening and weekend?  A person should want to see their kids!  [/quote]

You can judge 'em the same the you judge a deadbeat dad or some poor welfare mom who dumps her kid with the grandma so she can go clubbing and do drugs.  It's not a class issue.  Women who lack the maternal gene but still go on to bear children exist is all strata of society, why are the rich exempt?  Yeah, some people have no innate desire to mother, and pawn off the job on nannies.  Some women out and out abandon their kids or give up parental rights, too.
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