Shipwrecked: Women and children first?
Monday, January 23, 2012 - 12:02
in Psychology & Sociology
Barely three months short of the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic, which went down on 15 April 1912, another shipwreck has galvanised the worlds attention. With tragic stories of loss, chaos and fear, shipwrecks have always fascinated onlookers, and been used to convey moral lessons. The Costa Concordia has reignited the potent debates over how one should behave in an emergency shipwreck situation. It is clear from the media response that the old question of whether women and children should go first remains just as significant in 2012 as it seemed in 1912.