 Also women and children waiting for their husbands and fathers or brothers, grown-up brothers, to come and fetch them. Women couldn't be released on their own normally. They were afraid of crime against women. So to protect them, they insisted that male relatives come to fetch them, if there were any male relatives around New York. Were many sent back or excluded? Well, about a quarter million out of the 12 million were sent back. That's not funny.