Marilyn Monroe

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When Norma Jean was a baby, her mother placed her in a child-care situation with Albert and Ida Bolender, apparently because she had a hectic life-style and felt this would be better for the baby.  She paid them $25 a month for this.  Norma's grandmother Della apparently lived nearby, but died Aug 1927.  One biographer claims that Ida Bolender stated that Della "...died in a straitjacket."  The truth might be a little more prosaic.  In the only video interview of which I know, with Ida, she didn't say that.  She did say that Della acted crazy one day and broke the window in or by their front door, and that they called the Sheriff about it.
 
When Norma Jean was a baby, her mother placed her in a child-care situation with Albert and Ida Bolender, apparently because she had a hectic life-style and felt this would be better for the baby.  She paid them $25 a month for this.  Norma's grandmother Della apparently lived nearby, but died Aug 1927.  One biographer claims that Ida Bolender stated that Della "...died in a straitjacket."  The truth might be a little more prosaic.  In the only video interview of which I know, with Ida, she didn't say that.  She did say that Della acted crazy one day and broke the window in or by their front door, and that they called the Sheriff about it.
  
It's also confusing that apparently Gladys was living with the Bolenders as they are all reported together, in one house in the 1930 census.  Some biographers has mistakeningly suggested that the Bolenders were a "foster family", but in today's terms we would call this "full-time child care", i.e. the child is being boarded while her mother works or perhaps cats-around but not fostered.
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It's also confusing that apparently Gladys was living with the Bolenders as they are all reported together, in one house in the 1930 census.  Some biographers has mistakeningly suggested that the Bolenders were a "foster family", but in today's terms we would call this "full-time child care", i.e. the child is being boarded while her mother works or perhaps cats-around but not fostered.  "Foster parents" are paid by the state, not by the parents of the child.
  
 
===Aside: The Bolenders===
 
===Aside: The Bolenders===

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