Who would you save?

[tiff211]

You too? DH thinks I'm crazy!

 

[Skylarr29]

This can go so many ways. If a family of five is strapped in, and the kids are too young to get out themselves, I would free my wife who I would hope could help free the three kids. Tougher choice if there is only the wife and one kid, but I would go with the kid.

Very true... just thought of that. If we were all in the car and driving together and I could reach over and unbuckle/help dh so we could both get kids then yes that is what I would do. Now if we were all in the middle of a lake per say and drowning then I would go for the kids first.

 

[Skylarr29]

Oh and you should always practise reaching into the bak seat and unbuckling you childrens carseats with your eyes closed so you know the feel of them if you cant see them, just in case.

 

[pixiemomma]

Kids....and I hope he would do the same.

 

[cardaway]

Very true... just thought of that. If we were all in the car and driving together and I could reach over and unbuckle/help dh so we could both get kids then yes that is what I would do. Now if we were all in the middle of a lake per say and drowning then I would go for the kids first.

I don't think the situation is much different than the oxygen scenario on a plane that has lost cabin pressure. It's always a matter of who you can get to and how many people you can get in a situaiton where they can help others.

 

[minkydog]

I would try to save youngest DS. He is helpless and wouldn't know what to do. The older kids an DH are strong swimmers and would have a chance. Of course it would depend on the scenario. I don't swim well, but I have no doubt I would try to save any or all of them.

 

[mrsv98]

I would save DD and DH damn sure better do the same! As parents, there is no greater responsibility than to protect our children.

I remember when we had our house baby proofed. The guy came thru and we talked about all the different things we wanted to do and we were talking about our smoke detector which is also a heat detector. He said if there was a fire, we should leave DD's door closed, go out and let the Fire Dept get her, it was safer. Yeah, I think I will leave my child in a burning building......the guy was NUTS! We are getting a fire ladder to store in her room, it is a 2nd floor and no other way out. All the other 2nd story rooms have lower roofs or trees but hers does not. If you really want to come watch a good show, you can come when the Fire Dept comes to show us how to use it!

 

[sharbear]

Since my DH swam in HS and college and the kids swam competitively, they better save me! I'm the one who panics in water not them!

 

[BillSears]

Even knowing that DW would be dead based on this choice. I'd save the kids. If it's a choice between certain death for both parents and one child living then the child lives. I'm sorry but in that sort of situation the children come before the parents.

Face it if I saved DW instead of the kids then she'd kill me. So it's just self defense.

 

[jbdreamer]

This is a tough one for me, as my DH can't swim. This has always been a scary thought for me. I am so mad he won't go take lessons, but he is too embarrassed. I've told him if he dies from drowning, I'd kill him. "good thing I'll be dead" he tells me.

I don't have kids yet, but if I did, I think I would go after them before my DH even though he can't swim. My kids are my responsibility, my husband would be drowning out of stupidity.

 

[Jennifer S]

My kids and if it was the other way around, I would want my dh to save the kids before me.

Me too!

 

[Aidensmom]

I have only one child, and so that is who I would save first. DH is more likely to be able to save himself.

 

[daisyduck123]

Both DD11 & DS7 are on year round competitive swim teams.
Both can outswim me by miles.
I hope one of them would try to save me.

 

[goodeats]

I remember this on Oprah many many years ago. Most men said they would save their SO first since "you can have another baby, but not always find that perfect someone" (Their words not mine). Most women said of course the children.

I don't have kids yet, so I don't know. I'd like to think my mom would have saved us first if my family was in this situation.

But then this gets into the whole scenario about who should come first in live - your kids or your spouse.

 

[nativetxn]

I had only one child. If I had to choose between my son and my dh, I would save my son.

When I was a girl, I remember asking my mother who she would save first, my sister or me. She told me, neither, that she would jump in and drowned herself because she couldn't choose.

It wasn't all that comforting

 

[jimmiej]

I can't answer that question. I think it would be pure reaction. Plus, my two kids are both adults now. They can swim as good as their mother, if not better.

I will say though, my wife is the most important person in my life. I value my relationship with her more than any other.

 

[coliebird]

I would save DD and DH damn sure better do the same! As parents, there is no greater responsibility than to protect our children.

I remember when we had our house baby proofed. The guy came thru and we talked about all the different things we wanted to do and we were talking about our smoke detector which is also a heat detector. He said if there was a fire, we should leave DD's door closed, go out and let the Fire Dept get her, it was safer. Yeah, I think I will leave my child in a burning building......the guy was NUTS! We are getting a fire ladder to store in her room, it is a 2nd floor and no other way out. All the other 2nd story rooms have lower roofs or trees but hers does not. If you really want to come watch a good show, you can come when the Fire Dept comes to show us how to use it!

One of the first things I did when my daughter was born was to get a fire ladder for the 2nd floor. I think every family should have one. I also installed a smoke detector in her room (there was only one in the hallway upstairs) and will put one in the new baby's room as well.

As for the original question, I would save my child(ren) first and I know my husband would do the same.

 

[Mom2Ashli]

I would go for my DD first. And I would hope that if you asked my DH this question he would also say the same. Our DD.

 

[jaimee1024]

My kids and if it was the other way around, I would want my dh to save the kids before me.

You took the words right out of my mouth!

 

[krcit]

Without a doubt, my kids first. DH would do the same. BTW, I was watching some news show the other day and they had a story about how to get out of a sinking car. There is a tool that they said everyone should keep in their car-it had a knife to cut a seatbelt and a hammerlike thing to break a window. I don't know what it was called but I bet you could google it. Might make a good stocking stuffer for those you love.