If your spouse and child were both in the process of drowning and needed immediate resuscitation, whom would you tend to first?

The baby. A child has a smaller lung capacity than an adult and is likely to drown faster. I'd save my child, and then my husband and preform CPR if necessary.

Taking a few seconds to reach over and pull my spouse from the water after pulling the baby likely isn't going to change whether the baby lives or dies, though in the bath tub situation.. my husband is 6"2 210 lbs.. he takes up the ENTIRE tub.. pulling him would pull the baby. Lol\ As a side note: I've seen that episode. First time I saw it I was in the hospital and had just delivered my son.. I cried so hard when the baby died :(.

Well... I can say I feel completely blessed to know I'll almost assuredly not ever have to answer that question. I can't see my athletic and able-bodied husband drowning and my son... he's a fish. If anything, they'd have to BOTH drag ME out of the water and save my life.

I'm a bit of a kultz, but they love me. Anyway, if I had to choose, the one who needed me the least in that moment would be the one who got me. How the heck I'd determine that, though, I don't know.

What I do know, from my time working in criminal justice and victim advocacy, is that ordinary people really do perform extraordinary feats when under pressure and love and family and life is on the line. So since I prefer to look optimistic, I'd say both would survive!

I agree with unwirklich's answer, except for one thing. I would have pulled the plug on the bathtub (to drain the water) after pulling my baby out and performing cpr on it first, then to help my spouse.

Give primary attention to the baby because they're at risk for immediate, irreversible brain damage. Provide rescue breathing and check for pulse as a first step. The longer the brain is without oxygen, the more likely there will be irreversible damage.So attend in that order, unless any of the cases seems like a clear improbable rescue or it would be risky to rescue them.

My child, because I would know that it was what my husband would want. Otherwise, I would not have married him.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.