Honestly, I’d rather see this than the family simply “giving” the person away, never having anything to do with him, as if they didn’t want him.

A lot of families did that back then.

Your right. There are worst things in life.

@@livingadreamlife1428 yes I was found out when I was 50 by accident when my sister was cleaning up the house when my mum was put in a nurse nursing home my sister didn't go to my father's funeral and she is the biological daughter of my parents nor did she see my mum when she's been a year with leukaemia in hospital she said she didn't like Funerals when my father was very but when my mother was buried and it was for me and dollars it stayed last chatelles and stamp collections eccetera she soon come forward and took over and got my mother to sign legal papers and took everything long story short one my sister won't give me my adoption papers and I'm still 5 years later trying to find her through all these find vanish and I can't get to it because it was a private adoption

I think it's extremely unfair of them not to have been truthful and it would be a horrible lasting shock for the child. Maybe not him but many.

lol

great comment!!

haaa! *buh dum tiss* 🤣🤣

lol

Y’a lol , and Ted buddy couldn’t!!!

Many children were brought up that way. The baby was kept in the family. Not adopted by strangers given up.

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@A H I know someone who is raising their niece's daughter, to avoid having her go into foster care. They were in their 40s, their daughter was finishing college, ready to enjoy their time together, and then they made the sacrifice. It's admirable. Don't know if I could do that

@@muffassa6739 Bobby Darin also was told that who he thought was his sister, was in fact his biological mother. His "sister" and her husband told him the truth when he was an adult. What a liberating, fantastic moment it must have been.

@A H because people are very selfish now and care more about their own convenience and money than making sure their family is taken care of.

Those days are Gone ‼️ thanks 😊 to technology ‼️🤷

@@fatonyalmitchell3281 That's true.

Until they told Parade magazine. Then it was blasted to the world.

Maybe there are. You wouldn't know if someone keeps something private if they actually keep it private. Ha

@@MariaMaria-sr8zg I never thought of that, but you are right!

Societal norms were centered on shame and shunning. If society had been more accepting then lies wouldn't have been needed. Unless you think lying is dignified.

Good on your grandpa for not being an insecure manchild over it and sacking up for the sake of the family. That’s admirable.

Any tips? I’ve been forced to lie to my daughter that I’m her half sister. I hate it

@@monstermcboo7282 Tell me why he ought to be responsible for dealing with the consequences of his wife's infidelity

My sister is 17 years older than me. The dynamic is totally different with an age gap like that. Plus she left home when he was still pretty young. I mean I love my older siblings (I have a brother who is 15 years older than I am) but my sister (who is 16 months older than I am) and I are much closer. My older siblings are much closer to each other. It was almost like my parents had two different families, but we all have the same parents. I'm much closer to my niece who is 5 years younger than I am. By the time I was old enough to have secrets, my brother and sister were both married and living in other cities.

@@alisambrano good point! I didn't think of it like that 😄

Its the opposite for me my mom knows me better than my siblings my sister doesn't even know I'm bi

@@MelloraFraggle same. I came out to my mom before my brother knew 😅

@@alisambrano I agree. I have an identical twin sister and we are extremely close. She is my best friend. We have five older siblings, ten to 18 years older. While, we are all close and genuinely like each other, I just never had the same relationship with them. I sorta refer to it as, we never were fighting for the bathroom to get ready in the morning, while growing up. My two oldest siblings moved out practically when my twin sister and I were born. Another sister got married when I was five. My two brothers ten and eleven years older moved out when I was a young teen. Just not the same. With my parents gone now my siblings are so much more important. My mom told me she felt accomplished in life because of how we all turned out and love each other.

He’s doing great. Check him out on Instagram!

Well I don't know if you can say that , I'm sure Jack was affected by not being told the truth

She did what she had to do because abortion was not an option, it was illegal and a baby out of wedlock was scandalous in 1937. She was lucky she had the support of her parents. Otherwise the options were few and none of them good. At the time there was no welfare or social security.

What is family did to him - was deceitful- they "" lied "" to him - imagine - his own Mother - lied to him - unforgettable

Pretty sure this was common in this time period

@@mikenorton632 It’s what people did back in the day because of the stigma of having a child out of wedlock. It was basically the same thing if you were pregnant and divorced. It was frowned upon to be a single mother so you married soon after you were pregnant or had a baby because that’s just the way it was. I know because my mom did just that. She divorced my biological father when she was 3 months pregnant with me and she had my older brother too at the time. She married his first cousin and my dad adopted my brother and myself when we were 6 and 2 years of age. My biological father married again and went on to have two more children with his second wife. Now at 62 years old last year in 2020, I met my two half sisters for the first time. I didn’t know my dad wasn’t my dad till I was 23. I just found out last year that she told my biological father when they separated that I wasn’t his baby but she told me I was his at 23. He really never knew for sure. 23 and me changed all that when we all had our DNA checked. Keeping secrets like this will all come out eventually.

Good point

locked up?!!

@@jasonfoley6502 An asylum

@@tracischmidt8593 That's crazy.

@@jasonfoley6502 All based on religion. God will damn an unwed mother. Blah blah blah

It WAS common practice even in the 60’s.

Only a good mom deserves to be called mom

@@timunknown6724 I understand your point here....but we don't know the full situation....and whatever the reason...I agree with DBL....it must have hurt her very much.

@@timunknown6724 She was a good mom she gave him a life and the best one she could bad mothers beat and starve their kids this girl knew she was in a tough situation the mother/grandmother knew the girl and the baby would face hardship and ridicule maybe even worse so she took on the boy as hers and they all kept him but I guess you would think it better if she aborted him or he ended up in foster care instead he was raised in a loving home and he said as an adult it had no ill affect on him when he found out so what exactly made her a bad mother in your crappy opinion

@@aprilgosa5779 no she was selfish. She could have taken care of him but instead wanted to pursue acting. When you have a kid it's called sacrifice.

@@timunknown6724 lol What are you talking about? She let him move to LA with her when he turned 16. That's not abandonment. She could have told him to stay where he was and then you wouldn't even know who he is. You don't know what else she did for him when he was young, because you weren't there. Sure it's terrible that the family lied to him all those years, but those were different times, and women were ostracised for less back then, so I hear.

People can make all kinds of crazy decisions in desperate times. Just part of being human. I hope the children are loved.

My cousin was pregnant before marriage. Solution; grandma becomes mom, and my cousin) became a sister.

I have a theory that something similar took place when my husband's grandfather was born. I realized looking through census records tha his "mother" was 54 when he was born 🤔

There are a lot of people like that. They have a “Golden ratio” when choosing “beauty”, so a lot of famous people look alike. Check out Helen Mirren and Jennifer Lawrence.

@0:38 he resembles Jason Sudeikis. I actually thought it was Jason.

🙄😂😂😂😂

Interesting comment, because I have often wondered about "Hollywood folk" and just with WHO and HOW genetic information gets "exchanged" in that town. (No kidding---I've seen "extras" in very old movies and TV shows that have damnn near MIRROR IMAGES of today's actors!! Hmm... maybe it's because I've seen many of them on the original episodes of the TWILIGHT ZONE???😳😂😳)

@@jebidiahnewkedkracker1025 😂

My dad dies when I eas 8 he was 34 .

We ALL are 😭‼️🤷

Yea I agree

I agree too.

Me too.

Well, they say you have to dig deep 😜

Jack was a good joker but Heath took that role to an entirely different and higher level.

😂😂

Did the news change anything? Or were the relationships so established that it didn't make much difference?

@@NotAnotherKuromi her real mom was a scumbag who she never truly accepted but it messed her emotionally having her sister randomly reveal she was actually her mother while she was still a kid If anything it strengthed her bond with our great grandmother who raised her

Oh. You want to learn about Jack Nicholson? Because...saying that? I think you should learn more about the glorious Jack Nicholson. Who has never...ever...EVER...once...hurt a Child in ANY way. And DEFINITELY NEVER hurt a Child while other Adults were around. I swear it NEVER happened. Jeez, Cameron. You know there's a whole nasty history of the World that precedes your birth by a while, right?

Bobbi Sparks that was his defense? How Stupid Jack became a award winning actor Ted became a Psychopathic torturer of women and girls life is about choices and personal responsibility Teddy never showed any Nicholson also is not the only kid that ever happened to as I said it happened a lot more than people think in those days he had women that loved him enough that they would do anything to be able to keep him and to keep him protected because not only were mother's ridiculed back then in those situations often the children were too so of course they hid it from him and the world they protecting their little Jack as for Bundy his mother must have had a lot of guilt because she defended that Psycho till the end of his life and hers swore up and down her Teddy couldn't do things like that well it was all there in front of you lady Ted also blamed an ex in college breaking up with him for what he did and all the victims looked similar to this girl girls were changing their hair to try to stay safe from him

Oh no, no sweetheart! It was attempted but Bundy had such an ego, that he truly felt that since he went thru MAYBE up to 6 months of law school, he could totally represent himself and beat the system doing so. He truly did have a fool for a client by repping himself in court the way he did but they DID try!! And to say that he had no motivation in his life, he was a law school student, was part of the republican campaigns for president, worked the suicide hot line and a smattering of other accomplishments that I'm drawing a blank on. He just went the wrong way in life. Even the judge who sentenced him told him that he was impressed with how he did in court and he is saddened by the fact that he went the way he did bc he could have gone far as an attorney. Idk if it was long term brain damage caused by his abusive, woman hating grandfather/ daddy or his ego being bruised that did what he did bc all of his victims looked exactly like the only woman (my guess, not an actual fact) who broke his heart. He was petty enough to get his ass together, get into law school, and all the other crap he did, all as a big screw u to her. After he won her back by being the type of man her daddy approved of and then once he had her RIIIIGHT where he wanted her, he dumped her ass right back. However, it later did come out that she only broke up with him bc her FATHER wished it so...he didn't feel as tho dude would be a good enough provider for his daughter and back in those times, kids honored and respected their parents so who's to say that she didn't want to but had no choice in the matter? At any rate....I was really just impressed with Jack's story and the fact that he overcame such harsh realities in life. It brings up the question amongst so many psych doctors and their students alike concerning the whole nature vs. nurture argument.....see a story like this where u have 2 exact OPPOSITE personalities who went thru practically practically the same thing as children and 1 is a fairly decent guy, according to the paparazzi and other news/ interviewers and the other 1 was a nasty, murderous necrophile and rapist who probably just needed a hug as a child.....interesting stuff IMO. Take care of yourself hon. Hope all ur loved ones are safe and sound out there!!!

Bundy was much younger when he found it out. His grandfather was a very aggressive person. I don't remember if this really was his defense but FBI studies made it clear that murderers like Bundy always have neglect or abandonment by parents in their life. And other stuffs too. Bundy was a psychopath, Nicholson isn't.

You beat me to it

Theodore Bundy was abused, beaten, and sustained a head injury. It seems to be head injuries during early and middle childhood that seems to be the clincher, and when combined with no gentle and loving touch as a baby, you have deeply disturbed people. Love your children. Genuinely like your children from the start

He played the joker well.

Happened to my GMA. They were super religious and just hid the baby and grandma claimed the teens baby.

His story is almost the same as Bobby Darin

Mine also

You have to admit Joachim Phoenix nailed it in the stand alone movie.

Pffffffffff ledger is the man

Okay I agree with both like ledger was the best at being dark like he was amazing and so was Joaquin Phoenix he was amazing too but Jack Nicholson is just like I mean I grew up with him so he's old school that's what I remember as a kid watching and I don't know I guess you can't beat the classics, and I may piss people off saying this but Jared Leto really disappointed me in the suicide squad I did not really like him as the joker I'm sorry to anyone who did but that's just my opinion

@@alannawakefield5740 Leto is HUGELY over-rated, don't see the appeal. Never really got Jack Nicholson, he was great in Cuckoos Nest, but he's kind of that character in every movie.

Eric Clapton also shares the same circumstances...

Was it “common”? Not sure. I don’t know too many people who were raised thinking their moms were their sisters. I know it happened …but I don’t know how “common” it was. I know plenty of people raised by grandmothers because their mother had them young, but usually they know their mom was their mom and their grandmother is their grandmother.

@@lisacox3750 It was not uncommon, just because you don't know any people that grew up that way doesn't make a difference or change the way it was back in the day.

Sad because it sounds like you would have been a happy adoptive parent, not surrounded by chaos.

Bobby Darin went through a similar situation and was devastated. We're all affected by things differently. Don't judge

And Clapton holds no hatred either back then these women and girls did what they had to protect themselves and the babies from society being cruel

Also Bobby Darin.

Grow out of wanting a "dream mother," as by adopting a child and becoming their "dream mother."

@@JudgeJulieLit i have 3 beautiful children and 1 grandson that i love so much. I NEVER wanted my children to feel what I've felt my whole life. I am the mother i wish i had. I show my children love and compassion. They know I'm here for them 24/7

It is true that we were call bastard before by society. But your adopted parents were disgusting To act like that !