写真一枚に収められた物語

1948 シカゴで実際にあったことです。
両親が両方失業し、防税を出せずに追い出されたように見えました。
本当に子供たち売れと言ったのか助けを得ようとサインアップしたのか分からないけど。
新聞に記事が出てから
人々が職業やお金で助けを与えるようになりました。
そんなにハッピーエンドではなく
2年後、1950年にパパが家を出て
ママは他人とデートしながら
子供たちは捨てられました。
2人は養子縁組され、2人は売られて2ドル（現時点で22ドル）に売れました。
写真を撮った当時、お母さんのお腹の中にいた赤ちゃんも養子縁組されました。
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本当に悲しいです。
The above photo was taken in 1948 in Chicago, United States. It shows four siblings and their mother at the entrance to their house. In front of them is a gigantic sign saying: “4 children for sale inquire within.”
As it happens, the photo was real and the children were indeed on sale. Their parents, Ray (forty) and Lucille (twenty-four) Chalifoux were both unemployed and poverty-stricken. They were facing eviction from their apartment for not paying the rent.
It’s possible that the sign “4 children for sale” was just a cry for help. Once the newspapers around the country published the story, help actually came in form of job offers, apartments, and money.
Nobody really knows what happened in the following two years. However, in 1950, father Ray left and the family fell apart. Mother Lucille began dating a man who didn’t want anything to do with the children, therefore she gave them away.
Lana was adopted, RaeAnn and Milton were sold for $2 (around $22 in today’s value), and Sue Ellen was adopted. Bedford, who was still in his mother’s womb at the time the photo had been taken in 1948, was adopted as well