How much influence does the “women and children first” philosophy have on attitudes and behaviours?
Certainly, children no longer come first in ANY matter. I am a child advocate and I am profoundly weary of seeing children suffer. I do not care for humanity much anymore because any species as stupid as ours is in how poorly it cares for its children and how readily it harms its children has no honor whatsoever in my eyes. But, I can contribute this to your excellent question: The origins of the concept “women and children first”, hails from early man when humans were the property of dominate males and ruling families. If I may, here is an answer I posted earlier related to monogamy and the mindset of human cultures and modern customs that hail from early conditions of human husbandry: “We are probably not monogamous. Other male primates tend to have several female mates while females tend to remain aligned with one dominate male. Most early civilizations of humans continued that practice. When we began to domesticate animals, we learned about animal husbandry, how to tame wild animal
