Someone Should Have Saved Joan Crawford’s Adopted Daughter From Her Parenting Methods

Joan Crawford adopted Christina in 1939 when she discovered she couldn't have her own children. After her death, this daughter revealed that her life with Joan Crawford wasn't as much of a fairytale as everyone believed. Take a look at the early life of Christina Crawford and her mother's parenting rules. Read on and find out whether her rules were really that bad.

Joan was very eager to become a mother, but that didn't happen during her first marriage to Douglas Fairbanks Jr. This lasted from 1929 to 1933, when she decided to end it and got a divorce. She married Franchot Tone in 1935 and wanted children, but, again, that wasn't to be.

When Joan Crawford discovered that she couldn't have children during her second marriage, she decided to adopt a child. This was when she adopted Christina, the first of five adopted children through the years. She adopted the baby girl from an unmarried teen mother from Los Angeles, California.

Although Joan Crawford was at first denied the adoption of a child, she didn't let that stop her from starting a family. That was when she pursued adoption through another state where she had more success.

This event took place around a year and a half after adopting her baby girl while married to her third husband. At this stage, she decided to expand the family and find another child to adopt. They settled on a boy, but something they never expected happened.