[ SECRET POST #1981 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1981 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, my explanation's not a great one. I was actually thinking Birthmothers were chosen for having no above-average skill. There aren't a whole lot of jobs in the Giver's world, and Laborers are absolutely vital. A lot depends on Laborers, who deliver food, do the physical work of building, and probably tons of other things like garbage disposal, gardening, food preparation, and housework. You don't need a ton of doctors, lawyers, and firefighters if the society is small enough. You do need someone to do all the grunt work. I wouldn't call that punishment any more than I would call working in the service industry or a shipyard punishment. It's not glamorous, but it's a necessary job (I've worked in the food service industry for several years and there are definitely people who make it a livelihood). The default, then, is Birthmother/Laborer. The girl who is chosen to be a Birthmother in Jonas' year was noted to be dim-witted, iirc.

I was thinking that the families that only care for one child would almost always be assigned a girl. There's certainly still the issue of too many children, too few parents in that case, but that problem already exists with the family units that only care for one child.