A pregnant woman sold her four children. Why?

After World War II, the United States became the largest power in the world. It is generally believed that the period from 1945 to 1964 is a period of rapid economic growth and general prosperity in the United States. However, the reality is that the United States is still a country? Three realms? In our country, if someone accidentally falls into the third world of America, life will not be so easy.

Note: The name and age of the child in the photo.

In the upper row, Zuo Lana is 6 years old and Zuo Errui is 5 years old.

Bottom row, first from the left, Milton is 4 years old, second from the left, and Allen is 2 years old.

August 5th, 1948, a residential area in Valparaiso, Indiana, USA. A photographer captured such a photo.

The eye-catching sign says: 4 children for sale. When the photographer took this photo, the pregnant woman in the photo turned her head to one side in shame, while her four children were at a loss.

When this photo began to spread on the streets of America, people questioned that it was a posing photo, and the photographer must have paid his mother a sum of money. Unfortunately, it is an ironclad fact that a pregnant mother wants to sell her four children, regardless of whether the photographer has an interest relationship with her mother.

The mother's name in the photo is Lucile? Lucille Chalifoux's husband is an unemployed coal truck driver. Because of lack of livelihood, he can't support their four children, and his wife is pregnant. They can only choose to sell their four children.

Why do they want it when they are so poor? Have a baby? And then what? In fact, this has something to do with the history of contraception in the United States. In the 1950s, the United States took the lead in inventing the world's first contraceptive pill, which was not publicly listed until the 1960s. At the same time, in 1970s, medical abortion became a substitute for surgical abortion.

So this American one? The third world? Families don't know anything about contraception, and there are no useful contraceptive measures except the method of calculating women's menstrual cycle. At the same time, they can't bear the high cost and great risk of abortion.

Fortunately, the mother's four children were not sold to child sex slave traders. In fact, it was not revised until 1978 in the United States? Mann act? Protecting male and female minors from sexual exploitation, but their fate is not very good.

Five-year-old Rey and four-year-old Milton were sold to Zoeteman's family, although they were new in the photo? A family of four? People are very happy and smile in front of the camera. But the truth is, Milton was once called to his face by his new father. Slave? He didn't know the meaning of this word until he grew up, and he has accepted it for a long time.

He and his sister were forced to work in the barn for a long time, and the legal adoption procedures were never formally handled. Due to lack of education, long-term abuse, beatings and even hunger, Milton formed an antisocial personality, so he was detained in a mental hospital and a juvenile detention center for a long time. When Rey 17 years old, she chose to run away from home. A little girl can't protect herself in society. She was even kidnapped and raped, which led to pregnancy. Finally, the rest of the children can only be raised by others.

The pregnant woman in the photo, Charlie Fox, later gave birth to a child named David. Charlie Fox gave him to the East Side of Chicago and was legally adopted by a family. Their elder sister Lana and their youngest brother Allen don't know where to go. It was not until 20 13 that these old people met, reviewed the scene of that year and talked about their mothers.

My brother Allen and my sister Rey, on the right, are holding the clothes Rey was wearing when she was sold.

In 20 13, Lana died of cancer 1988, my sister Rey finally found her biological brother Allen. When they met to talk about their birth mother, Allen said bitterly. She should burn to death in hell! ? Milton also said angrily:? My birth mother never loved me. She never apologized for betraying me. She hates me so much that she doesn't care! ?

David was the only one who was sent away instead of being sold. He defended his mother and said that she never needed to apologize. It was just a survival choice. We are human beings, and we always make mistakes. She is also thinking of the children and doesn't want them to die. ?

The tragedy of this family is not a case, but a microcosm of the gap between the rich and the poor in American society at that time. After World War II, the United States faced not only the rapid economic development, but also the staggering gap between the rich and the poor.

/kloc-American middle-class families in the 1950 s

After World War II, the American economy grew at a high speed of 3.5% every year, bringing the population of the United States to 60%? Middle class? At the same time, blue-collar workers have become the biggest buyers of luxury goods and services. According to statistics, the disposable income of American consumers after World War II was higher than that of any country in the world at that time. American historian John Vaizey even proudly said: Except the poorest Americans, everyone is better off than the Russians! ? But how many of the poorest Americans are there?

1947, 34% of American families' income was still below $3,000, which was still 22. 1% even in 1960. At that time, 20%-25% of the population could not support a normal life, 60% of blacks were below the poverty line, while the proportion of white families was only 9%. In other words, what did John weiser say? Except the poorest Americans? China contains 20%-30% of the population of the United States. This is another America written by michael harrington, an American politician at that time.

References:

Another America

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