Voices
CAROLYN
EDGAR
HUFFINGTON
11.11.12
Always
Blaming
the Parents
WHEN THE NANNY of a wealthy
Upper West Side family was accused of murdering two of her
employer’s three children, the
response from some was all too
familiar: blame the mother. Commenters on sites all across the
Internet have attacked the chil-
ILLUSTRATION BY KYLE T. WEBSTER
dren’s mother, Marina Krim, for
hiring a nanny instead of caring
for her three children without assistance. Responding to a recent
article at The Daily Beast about
the Krim murders, a commenter
said, “Maybe parents ought to
think long and hard about their
choices and maybe raise their own
Carolyn Edgar
is a New York
City lawyer
and writer