In her early thirties, Tasha Blaine briefly worked as a nanny. She expected an easy, nine-to-five stint but instead discovered the vast, varied, and largely unknown world of nannies. To tell the true story of these often overlooked and invisible women, Blaine immersed herself in the lives of three nannies in three cities and three very different situations.

We meet Claudia, who left the Caribbean to become a nanny in New York and is struggling to support her daughter and the son she left behind. We get to know Vivian, a young, college-educated woman from Boston, who wins a Nanny of the Year award even as she absorbs the painful truth that her role in the family is shrinking as her charges grow up. And we witness the struggles of Kim, a dedicated Texas nanny who dreams of having her own family as she moves in with a couple expecting their first baby. Just Like Family exposes the fears and fantasies we have about nannies and takes us deep inside the real world of women whose job it is to love.