!!FridgeHorror
* Given the fact that David and Petra are exposed as mutants, their mother would have had ''four'' mutant children, thus it's very likely that Joseph would have banished Emily to the Fringes as part of standard Waknuk law.
** I think Waknuk law only provides this as grounds for summary divorce, not banishment to the Fringes. But he certainly would have divorced her if he had the opportunity to do so before he gets some well-deserved karma.
*** Plus Joseph dies by the end, so he's not in any position to divorce or banish anybody.
* Sure, Gordon Strorm tried to rape Rosalind, but keep in mind, he said that both Rosalind ''and Petra'' (his own ''niece'') were fertile. What part of the book says that he wouldn't try and "have relations" with Petra? His stated aim was to get Rosalind pregnant with his child [[note]]He's one of the few mutants to have escaped forced sterilisation.[[/note]], so Petra should have been safe for a few years. However, he had been in a sexual relationship with Sophie, a teenager like Rosalind, for an unspecified length of time. (Keep in mind that Sophie would have been around ''ten years old'' when she was banished to the Fringes.)
* The MonochromeCasting. We see that both black skin and albinism are considered deviant traits, and apparently the sterilize-and-banish approach is fairly new. It seems very likely that the previous generations of Joseph-like fanatics killed all people of colour they could get to.
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