Who was Charles Manson raised by?

Answer 1

He spent most of his younger years in jail. I think he actually referred to "the system" as his mother.Born as no name Maddox, Manson was born to unmarried, 16-year-old Kathleen Maddox in Cincinnati General Hospital, in Cincinnati,Ohio; no more than three weeks after his birth, he was Charles Milles Maddox.For a period after her son's birth Kathleen Maddox was married to a laborer named William Manson, whose last name the boy was given. Charles Manson's biological father appears to have been a "Colonel Scott", against whom Maddox filed a bastardy suit that resulted in an agreed judgement in 1937. Possibly, the boy never really knew him.

According to Manson, his mother, alleged to be an alcoholic, once sold him for a pitcher of beer to a childless waitress, from whom his uncle retrieved him some days later.When his mother and her brother were sentenced to five years imprisonment for robbing a Charleston,West Virginia, service station in 1939, Manson was placed in the home of an aunt and uncle in McMechen,West Virginia. Upon his mother's 1942 parole, Manson was retrieved by his mother and lived with her in run-down hotel rooms. He would one day characterise her physical embrace of him on the day she returned from prison as his sole childhood joy. In 1947, Kathleen Maddox tried to have her son placed in a foster home but failed because no such home was available. The court placed Manson in the Gibault school for boys, in Terre Haute, Indiana. After 10 months, he fled from there to his mother, who rejected him.