We fought over wearing them on our wrists. But she was complicit in my father's war. She wanted to be Switzerland. She wanted to be neutral. But when you live on a battleground, you have to choose sides.
Inaction implicitly rewards the powerful.
I'll say this, she hid or ignored evidence of our misbehavior when she could. But not always. Sometimes, to assert her own authority, she ratted on us. She never stopped him from hitting us. I don't think she considered it a possibility.