It is like a gang, except it can sometimes be in a sense closer. In gangs people still have there different points of view, in cults people are brainwashed, in a good or bad sense, to all have the same ideas and morals. Cults make people want to join because most of the time they make promises to the potential followers, whether it is drugs, sex, money, or even paradise. Now, what would drive a person to join a cult such as the Charles Manson family? .
It all started one fine day in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 12, 1934 when an illegitimate, unplanned little Charlie Manson, later to be one of America's most notorious serial killers, was born to his sixteen-year-old, alcoholic mother by the name of Kathleen Maddox. Manson did not have a good childhood to begin with, and anyone can tell after reading about his childhood that it was no wonder he turned out the way he did. Growing up, Charlie lived with his grandmother and grandfather and his mother because she was only sixteen, so she still lived at home. Kathleen's life was a mess and it was a fact that she did sleep around a lot as many other biographies of Manson's life has stated, however, in Nuel Emmons' book Manson in his Own Words, Manson defends his mother and says, "Other writers have portrayed Mom as a teenage whore In her search for acceptance she may have fallen in love too easily and too often, but a whore at that time? No!.In later years, because of hard knocks and tough times, she may have sold her body some - One can tell in his explanation, some of Manson's teachings about finding oneself and what not. Charlie never really had a father figure, which also created a big gap in his life and his mother had the habit of going off and leaving Charlie for long periods of time. Eventually, Kathleen and her brother were charged with armed robbery and sent to jail, so Manson had to live with his aunt and uncle. Eventually when Kathleen got out, she was still not responsible enough to take care of Charlie, and she never really lived a normal life.
