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If parents are being too permissive with their children, then the FAs have to spring into action. Tell the parents that they will be offloaded or banned from the airline if they don't keep their children under control. Threaten the same banishment to overly intoxicated/self-important passengers.
One of the first things FAs learn in training is that threats and confrontation do not make things better in a confined space. They make things worse. There are wiser ways of deescalating situations involving drunks, lechers, mile-high-clubbers, DYKWIAs, nervous flyers... and kids, who are typically the least trouble of that set.
Attacking and threatening people who offend you is easier on an Internet keyboard than nose to nose.