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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought Wives were all infertile. Have we ever seen a life with biological children. I doubt they’d give up a breeding woman to the exclusive use of a single Commander. That’s a good incentive for marrying off the young Daughters to young loyal men like Nick. [/quote]

The wives aren’t necessarily infertile. They are just the Gilead elite who either helped bring Gilead to power or married someone who did. Most of them are infertile, and they have the power to force fertile “fallen” women to breed for them. There are also the econowives, who are not considered fallen, may or may not be infertile, and don’t have the power to force anyone to breed for them.

I think once Nick became a commander he no longer was subject to forced marriage, but would be considered a good catch for one of the other commander’s daughters, probably.[/quote]

They only check the woman and assume the men are fertile.  So in less the woman has an affair, if she is with an infertile man, she will be deemed infertile and the blame.  Many are older woman who are past their prime years of having kids.

I think most are arranged marriages.[/quote]

Between the commanders and older wives? Why do you think that?[/quote]

They showed the arranged marriages earlier on. The older ones were probably married before Gilead so those marriages stayed but anyone young is arranged.[/quote]

I don’t remember arranged marriages with commanders; I remember the episode with the mass wedding ceremony between guardians/eyes and the child brides. The commanders are powerful and function in Gilead as entitled elites. They have much more freedom of choice than econo men.[/quote]

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