Also, re-introducing a policy allowing children to visit the flight deck in the cruise and at times of low workload could achieve several things.
1. Relieve boredom, especially if mum is a hottie........
2. Inject a sense of pride in one's work
3. A reminder that we are responsible for innocent lives
4. Greater public awareness of what it is we do
In another post someone suggests that airline management should share responsibility for pilot mental health. To a point, inasmuch as employment conditions can affect well being, but that does not mean anyone other than the perpetrator can ever be blamed for mass murder.
To attempt to share blame in such cases is a cop out. The old bull**** that if you are abused as a child, you are partially excused for abusing children. Your life is a fustercluck, so you are going to mess with other lives, etc. No, you are not in any way excused - in fact all the more reason that you should know better.