Monroe - who described the experience of a military housewife as a fate akin to "dying of boredom" - worked in a munitions factory after Dougherty was shipped out to the Pacific during World War II. She married 21-year-old James Dougherty, who eventually enlisted in the Merchant Marine. Per Spoto's book, Monroe entered into her first marriage at 16 to gain some stability after Goddard and her husband moved to West Virginia. Though young Norma periodically stayed with family friend Grace Goddard (who was eventually made her legal guardian), she spent the majority of her childhood in foster care and orphanages, during which she was reportedly sexually abused.
Though Monroe's early childhood was purportedly happy, according to the biography Marilyn Monroe by Donald Spoto, her mother Gladys Baker was unable to care for her due to financial straits as a single mother, as well as her battle with diagnosed paranoid schizophrenia.
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