I have a simple example where I'm creating a View consisting of a list box, and the list box displays a bunch of items. I'm wondering if I'm going about the creation of the View Model and Model classes correctly here. Use whatever value of correctly works in this context, I understand it's a bit subjective, but my current solution doesn't feel right. Here's a simplified version.

The ViewModels and Models:

namespace Example
{
  public class ParentViewModel
  {
      public ParentViewModel()
      {
          // ... Create/Consume ChildViewModel * n
      }

      public List<ChildViewModel> ChildViewModels { get; set; }
  }

  public class ChildViewModel
  {
      public ChildViewModel()
      {
          // ... Create/Consume ChildModel
      }

      public ChildModel Model { get; set; }
  }

  public class ParentModel
  {
      public List<ChildModel> ChildModels { get; set; }

      public ParentModel()
      {
          // ... Create/Consume ChildModel * n;
      }
  }

  public class ChildModel
  {
      public ChildModel()
      {
          // ... Contains actual data.
      }

      public string Data { get; set; }
  }    
}

The View:

<Window x:Class="Example.View"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" xmlns:Example="clr-namespace:Example" Title="View" Height="300" Width="300"
    DataContext="{StaticResource TheViewModel}">
    <Window.Resources>
    <Example:ParentViewModel x:Key="TheViewModel" />
</Window.Resources>
<Grid>
    <ListBox Height="261" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Name="listBox1" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="278" ItemsSource="{Binding ChildViewModels}"/>
</Grid>

In the proper code, the listbox will use a data template to display the child view models. But as you can see I'm not

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