>>448020386>How would they do that?Original writer, here's my concept for what the state might do in cases of gender-imbalanced siblings:
Polygamy is strictly forbidden, even amongst siblings, as the regime believes in the sanctity of sibling exclusivity. This has led to a contentious debate among Delphic Party intellectuals about what to do with individuals who do not have a sibling to marry: only children, people with only same-sex siblings, or people whose siblings are already married. These individuals are rife in resentment, envy, and overall feelings of unfairness. Anticipating this emotional trauma, parents typically seek to correct such gender imbalances through additional births, but there remain cases of lonely children.
There are three camps within the Delphic Party about solutions:
>1. Parental responsibilityThis faction believes that parents should be forced to produce an equal sex ratio through assisted reproductive technologies. This idea has sympathy among other factions, but is criticized for lacking a solution whenever further reproduction is simply impossible, such as the death of a parent.
>2. PolygamyConsidered heretical by the rest of the party, this faction argues for sibling polygamy in cases of gender imbalances. Pragmatically, it is also criticized for not providing a solution when individuals have no opposite-sex siblings.
>3. CousinsThis faction's solution is the most controversial. They propose that when parents are unwilling or unable to provide a mate for their child, the state will matchmake them with their closest, lonely, opposite-sex cousin. Furthermore, both sets of parents will share custody of the cousins, with them being raised in both households. They argue that at present, 3rd cousins are more genetically similar than full-siblings were when Ashley took power. Hardliners dismiss this, claiming it does not matter because society should be progressing genetically, rather than backsliding through cousin outbreeding.
