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Interestingly, I've asked many of my female friends, including my last few girlfriends, given the hypothetical choice of saving their husband or their child, wh
by eximius 11y ago
Interestingly, I've asked many of my female friends, including my last few girlfriends, given the hypothetical choice of saving their husband or their child, who would they save? Almost all of them said their children.
Ask the men, however, and it is almost always the wife.
And none of these folks were married or had kids yet. It is something ingrained from before that occurs.
- jpfed 11y agoDad here. I would save the kids, for several reasons: 1. They have more life-years ahead of them. 2. If I saved my wife, she would hate the choice I made and be plagued by survivor guilt or resentment. It's not clear that my marriage would survive this. But the kids are young enough that they would probably accept the choice, to the extent that they could comprehend it.