Assertion: handmaid's wife | /r/HasProperty | desperate
Facets:
value: for children
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: The barren Wife of the household, Serena Joy, is desperate for Offred to conceive, so she suggests Offred have sex with Nick since she believes her husband, Commander Waterford (who rapes Offred once a month in a government-sanctioned ceremony), is sterile.
text: That being said, some Wives are so desperate for children that they will form covert alliances with their Handmaids, arranging for them to sleep with other men to ensure they get pregnant and offering them contraband items or other forbidden luxuries, or sometimes information, in exchange for favors.