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You see a spat/fight brewing/descent/dispute (among adults) (between parent and child)...
You are in a social situation and someones being a pain in the ar*e...
You know first aid and someone needs your help...
....but then the possible backlash, verbal at best, leading to physical aggression and letigious response at worst...
Walk on by, considering that you might have had a positive outcome, or get involved and accept that you did things in good faith...
Me, I'd leave off the first two (referencing the restaurant / kids thread from earlier), but I would do the first aid intervention, and hope to hell that my good intentions didn't come back to haunt me...
Public interventions around children being chastised physically in social settings is probably one of the most difficult and devisive subjects to raise, but I'll leave it here in the thread for your consideration...
(for purpose of this discussion chastisement and assault require to be seen as wholly different actions, a light smack on the bottom is not to be compared with a more sustained physical reprimand - I'm choosing my words carefully here as it's very easy to be taken out of context)...
A weighty old topic for a Sunday, but there you go...
Discuss at will...