This chapter examines patriarchal structures and politicized relationships between mothers, fathers, and hired caregivers. While Freud famously asked what women want, for Garner the more targeted question here is: what do men and women want after they become parents? The chapter ponders the rhetoric of neoliberal feminism alongside a psychoanalytic understanding of the nuclear heterosexual family as proposed by Nancy Chodorow and Christina Wieland, in the context of novels that involve a father-employer who has an affair with the nanny hired to care for the family’s child(ren). The novels are Lady of the Snakes (Pastan 2008), Substitute Me (Tharps 2010), and Look at Us (Toma 2021). Garner addresses not only enduring trends of division of labor in the home but also persistent opinions regarding mothers engaged in waged work. She proposes that women continue to be blamed for their decision to work outside the home, particularly when they are white, in a heterosexual marriage, and middle-class, and thus perceived as having a choice.