The Disappearance by Philip Wylie

[Psychomeltdown]

I just finished rereading this book and was wondering what would happen to the world if male and females were seperated from each other for two or more years, would everything come crashing down?

here's a link if you want to read a review of it...

URL]http://www.lostbooks.org/reviews/1998-12-22-1.html

[Michael]

Well a deciding factor would be, how old would the cut off age (a six day old baby would not survive long without its mum) and whether we know if they are coming back

[Grey Wolf]

Originally Posted by Michael

Well a deciding factor would be, how old would the cut off age (a six day old baby would not survive long without its mum) and whether we know if they are coming back

Well, one supposes male nurses can run incuubators and make up feeding bottles etc. I would tend to agree that statistically more newborns would die if separated at birth, but its still going to be a minority. After all, it wouldn't suddenly happen, the hospitals would have the handover equipment or whatever ready

Grey Wolf

[Landshark]

Originally Posted by Grey Wolf

Well, one supposes male nurses can run incuubators and make up feeding bottles etc. I would tend to agree that statistically more newborns would die if separated at birth, but its still going to be a minority. After all, it wouldn't suddenly happen, the hospitals would have the handover equipment or whatever ready

Grey Wolf

It'd olny be a minority in the developed world. In most Africa and Asia losing the mother would mean losing the child's only food supply.

[wkwillis]

In the book they came back together at the same time and place they were, so you had a dry run at seeing what your children were going to be like. Nice or naughty, etc. Also the governments all over the world fell and everybody knew that they could be removed easily because they had done it. Probably there were a lot of tyrants slipping away in the celebrations when the return happened.