Would you stay & Fight?

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If you lived in Ukraine, I mean.

Pretend you had the basic same home/family/job/skillset you do now, but in Kyiv today.

I think I'd try to figure out how to stay & fight & send the youngest DC away West with DH (who probably wouldn't want to stay & fight).

Your likely choice?

My son is 5. I'd do anything to get him away and keep him as safe as I could.
If he were a lot older (very late teens onwards) and I couldn't get him to leave then I'd stay and do whatever I could to protect him. It's all about my son first.

My instincts would be to stay however my kids are 3 and 7...dh wouldn't be allowed to leave with them so I think I'd have to go. Enough of my family were raised in conflicts to make me feel uncomfortable with the idea of staying with young children. My own experience was on the gentler side but having our school bus searched every morning by men with guns, being evacuated for bomb threats/doing bomb drills and watching your father check under the car each morning was a painful life lesson at a young age.

If my mum/dh's parents were there to evacute the kids, I'd stay though. My father taught me to shoot as a child and I'm a decent shot plus I have in my misspent youth made a molotov cocktail or two.

My OH would stay and fight. He would want to know that me and the children and his parents were safe, and as far away from the fighting as possible.
I expect plenty of the people fighting in Ukraine feel similarly.