The Joys of modern motherhood

[Perndog]

Shit, this is nothing new. People with enough money to afford it have been abandoning their children to nannies in countless nations for millennia. The only thing that's different now is that the practice has become a part of American consumer culture and the proles (or people who should be proles) are participating as well because there's enough money to go around. But I suppose this is a little alarming, because at least someone who could hire a nanny in another era was likely to be in the upper percentiles of intelligence and capability.

Here's the bright side: Schmucks like this is probably worse at parenting than whomever they hire to fill in. They're probably doing the kids favors by getting out of the house.