And abandon your kids?<p>One reason I bring this up is that a &quot;duty to retreat&quot; requirement manufactured by the Massachusetts courts was used to convict a man in the early &#x27;80s who wasn&#x27;t willing to do that.  There&#x27;s a previous better known case were a woman was convicted because she didn&#x27;t try to climb out of the high windows in her basement apartment.