[ctdonath2]

“All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly, which can — and must — be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a “perfect society” on any foundation other than “Women and children first!” is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal.”
- Heinlein

[Sacajaweau]

Common sense says anyone that has a child goes first.

The idea of wives leaving their husbands (or whatever) to be first off is ridiculous.