What to say when you see a parent mistreat a child

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I finally, after years of awkward fuming, figured out what to say to a parent who’s abusing a child in public.



And, no, it’s not, ‘You’re under arrest.”



I only wish I had the power to send abusive parents to jail.



 Or straight to hell, really.



I must not have been paying attention when parents were told it was okay to physically and verbally abuse children, usually