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.
 
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.
  
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", where the parent still retains legal custody.
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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, not fostered.
  
 
===Aside: The Bolenders===
 
===Aside: The Bolenders===

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