Exactly, mother of the year Ethel would rather her kids be orphaned than rat on the USSR ring.
It hate to be sitting in the chair, and my wife get told “he gets the jolt,,,,or your daughter is orphaned”.
Hell, most women i know would press the button theirself to save their children!
I can understand that it would be a tough decision, but at least as far as my wife and I are concerned we both put the children ahead of our own lives and if we were in that situation I would insist that she save her own skin for the sake of the kids.