Дети на продажу в США

Продолжение предидущего поста (навеяно спором в https://author.today/post/338662?c=17599026&th=17577374)

Знаменитая фотка 48-го года. Одна из девочек с фотографии умирая от рака решила поведать детали истории https://nypost.com/2013/07/14/finding-peace-in-a-life-sold-for-2/

THE PHOTO

When Charnote was a child and acted up, his mother would warn him to be good or she would sell him, just like her mother sold her. He thought she was being facetious. Then he saw the photo.

It was published in The Vidette-Messenger of Valparaiso, Ind., on Aug. 5, 1948, with the caption, “A big ‘For Sale’ sign in a Chicago yard mutely tells the tragic story of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Chalifoux, who face eviction from their apartment. With no place to turn, the jobless coal truck driver and his wife decide to sell their four children. Mrs. Lucille Chalifoux turns her head from camera above while her children stare wonderingly. On the top step are Lana, 6, and Rae, 5. Below are Milton, 4, and Sue Ellen, 2.”

No one knows how long the sign stood in the yard, whether it was long enough for the camera shutter to close or whether it was years. Some family members claim the mother was paid to stage the photo.

The photo was also published in newspapers in Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Iowa and Texas, among others, said Linda Herrick Swisher, public information coordinator for the Hammond Public Library. A story several days later in the Chicago Heights Star stated a Chicago Heights woman offered to open her home to the children and that offers of jobs, homes and financial assistance poured in.

Two years after it appeared, the children went in different directions.

Потерявшего работу водителя углевоза выселяли из квартиры вместе с женой и детьми.. и тут они решили "продать детей". Некоторые родственники уверяли, что это был чисто бизнес-проект - мамаше заплатили за постановку.

Был ли это хитрый перформанс или порыв души и парараци неудачно подвернулся, но фотку опубликовали сначала в одной газете, потом быстро подхватили другие - через несколько дней и жильё им предложили и предложениями работы завалили.  Если Вы думаете, что это была классная идея и удачный пример  американской предпреимчивости ... ну такое себе решение - о детской травме свидетельствуют показания ребёнка одной из девочек - мол веди себя хорошо или продаст как продали её. Правда продали не в 48м, а 50м за символические $2 когда хахаль не захотел "прицепа"

It was Aug. 27, 1950, and Mills claims she was sold for $2 so her mother could have bingo money and because the man her mother was dating did not want anything to do with the children.