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Tibetan nannies: Parents’ new status symbol?
Popularity of caregivers of certain ethnicities raises uncomfortable issues
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msnbc.com |
By Susan Gregory Thomas
msnbc.com contributor
updated 8:00 a.m. ET Sept. 21, 2009
When $800 strollers hit the market a few years ago, it looked as if baby status symbols had reached a new odd, capitalist apex. Now, according to a growing number of parents and experts, the primo credentials trade in a different kind of capital: nannies.
In American cities that draw domestic workers from around the world, the nanny pool is incredibly diverse, with women from the Philippines, Jamaica and the West Indies, Nepal, Russia, Poland and more. In some families, the ethnic background of a nanny carries a certain cachet — and entrenched stereotypes.
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