Talk:Disciplinary Action/Characters
It occurs to me that if a town of this sort has a brothel, and the way the prostitutes wind up working at the brothel is getting pregnant before they are married, there has GOT to be at least a few children in the school who are the children of prostitutes. Jemini (talk) 10:33, 19 September 2017 (CEST)
Fewer than you would imagine. The brothel exists and has working women there, those prostitutes know their job and take contraception. Threatening girls with a life in the brothel is just another way the town has to scare and control children. In reality most girls that turn up pregnant before marriage are either forced to get married or shipped out of town to avoid losing face. I'm sure there are some children of prostitutes in school, but probably only in very low grades, as their mothers wouldn't want them to suffer bullying over their jobs, and they actually have enough money to take them elsewhere.
An exception to this could be the Style family. I put in "Single Mother" just because I was too tired to look up a good name for a husband, but it could be that Janne is a prostitute that decided to keep her children in town. It would also tie nicely with why Beatriz hired her oldest daughter as a babysitter.
On a related note, I was discussing with Notsooldpervert the size of the school, since he was looking for images for the rest of the characters and noted that the high school classrooms had a single teacher for all subjects. I explained that indeed the school is quite small, and getting smaller. That's why they had to mix kindergarten and first grade, as well as high school juniors and seniors. For years the town has been suffering from brain drain, as there are not many opportunities for young people to work. --Tod Naturlich (talk) 17:40, 19 September 2017 (CEST)