In her research on professional women and the relationship with the caregivers they hire, sociologist Cameron Macdonald, author of Shadow Mothers: Nannies, Au Pairs, and the
Micropolitics of Mothering, says that in their desire to be their child's No. 1, some moms only keep caregivers around
for a year so their child won't get too attached — thus depriving their child of long - term, stable and loving relationships, and the moms themselves from the help they actually need.
Surviving School
Micropolitics: Strategies
for Administrators, by Jane Clark Lindle (Technomic Publishing Inc., Box 3535, Lancaster, Pa. 17604; 165 pp; $ 35 cloth).