Editing Terry Melcher (section)

==Background==
Terrence Paul Jorden was born in New York City to singer/actress [[Doris Day]] and her first husband, trombonist Al Jorden. Known as "Terry",<ref name="telegraph">{{cite news| title=Obituaries: Terry Melcher| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1477227/Terry-Melcher.html| newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]| access-date=August 23, 2011| date=November 23, 2004| archive-date=June 5, 2011| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605000106/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1477227/Terry-Melcher.html| url-status=live}}</ref> the boy was named by his mother after the hero of her favorite childhood comic strip, ''[[Terry and the Pirates (comic strip)|Terry and the Pirates]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine| title=Two Faces of Cincinnati| magazine=Cincinnati| date=January 1983| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vx0DAAAAMBAJ&q=terry+and+the+pirates+doris+day&pg=PA94| access-date=August 23, 2011| author1=McKay, Robert| page=94| archive-date=July 20, 2021| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210720042804/https://books.google.com/books?id=vx0DAAAAMBAJ&q=terry+and+the+pirates+doris+day&pg=PA94| url-status=live}}</ref>

Before his birth, Day was planning to divorce Al Jorden because of his violent temper and alleged physical abuse. Jorden responded to his wife's pregnancy by demanding that she get an abortion. Shortly after giving birth, Day filed for divorce and left the infant with her mother in [[Ohio]] while she went back to touring with [[big band]]-leader [[Les Brown (bandleader)|Les Brown]]. After the divorce, Jorden visited his son infrequently and had little presence in his life.{{citation needed|date=November 2017}}

After divorcing her second husband, saxophonist [[George William Weidler|George Weidler]], Day married [[Martin Melcher]], who would become her manager and produce many of her films. Melcher adopted Terry and gave him his surname. In his freshman and sophomore high-school years, Terry attended the [[Loomis Chaffee School]] in Connecticut, then returned to California for his junior and senior years at [[Beverly Hills High School]]. He subsequently attended [[Principia College]] in Illinois for a short time. After Martin Melcher's death in 1968, Day discovered that he had mismanaged or embezzled $20 million from her, while Terry claimed that his stepfather had mistreated him as a child.<ref name="telegraph"/>