There were also tales of children quietly carrying heavy burdens. A 13-year-old secretly paid her nanny with her college fund because she was “the only calm in the house.” A 9-year-old hid homework to escape the pressure of perfection.

In another case, a nanny was threatened by a mother to lie in a legal battle. Years later, one former nanny saw a boy she once cared for become an author, revealing that his powerful father had secretly kept him from his real mother for years.