In today's society, families are falling apart and divorcing. Not all families of course, but the percentage rate is higher from year to year. Destroy means “to destroy; ruin” (Webster’s 169). That's what most people would say about their family if their parents were no longer together. In Gilead, that's what all the families say. The government destroyed families by kidnapping women and giving them to other families as property. In Gilead, most wives can no longer have children. Bringing a city to life requires reproduction. To do this, the government brings together all women capable of having children. They are called servants and are basically like a mistress: “they are a continual reminder of the failure of wives to conceive” (Callaway 55). When the maids go to the commander's room, they only serve one purpose. They are trying to get pregnant. During the commander and maid's sex, the woman is in the room and watches. Not only does she look, but she holds the servant's hand. “Serena Joy squeezes my hands like it’s her, not me, who’s being fucked” (Atwood 94). The government of Gilead fears that because there are not many women capable of reproducing, the city will collapse. They found a solution to ensure that there was enough reproduction each year to create a city. Rounding up all the women and sending them to different homes to breed is what they thought was best. Once the Handmaids have a child with a Commander, they entrust him to the Commander's wife. No one wants to see their husband with another woman. They definitely don't want to sit in a room and watch them have sex with this woman. This is what they are forced to...... middle of paper ......nships. Everyone would stay single and just sleep around so the kids would grow the community. Of course it would be an organized party. If everyone split up and left their children to be raised by someone else, the city would collapse. We need a relationship to feel better. We want to have these friendships, but with everyone being with everyone else, it's hard to be able to trust another person. Works Cited Atwood, M. (1998). The Handmaid's Tale. New York: Anchor Books. Callaway, A. A. (2008). Disunited Women: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood as a critique of feminism. SJSU ScholarWorks, 48-58.Cooper, P. (nd). Sexual surveillance and medical authority in two versions of The Handmaid's Tale. 56. Guralnik, D.B. (1983). Webster's Dictionary of the New World. New York: a Warner Communications company.