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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After the handmaids give birth and leave after weaning; do they list go to another family to be raped?[/quote]

Yes. They go to the handmaid center to recuperate and then sent to another family.[/quote]

[b]How awful. I had a friend who was pregnant every year of high school. I imagine she'd be popular[[/b]/quote]

Yikes! Hope she is doing well now, that is a LOT. Yes, she would probably be popular.

I did think it was interesting in this recent season they had the marriages of these very young girls, like Eden. I don't think this was in the book at all, and was something that I wondered about since it seemed in the book (also the show before the marriage ceremony) that most of the handmaidens were not all that young. Late 20's to mid 30's. I guess they would have had to have some kind of sin to land them there like June (adultery via divorce) and the very young girls would have been more slated for future econo-wives? That seems to be the case. But yes, in the book I remember thinking, from a pure breeding standpoint...I wonder what's happening with all the really young ones? As Atwood said she did not write about anything that had not happened for real somewhere in the world, that they weren't using teens to up their reproduction numbers was surprising. Great, but surprising. I think the showrunners actually did a good job of showing that they indeed did hone in on this age of woman, they just had a slightly different role in the society. None of the women escaped, they just had their own versions of hell. [/quote]

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