friend you have good contributions in the post, especially because many times we know that those who call the social service are the neighbors, like many see the discipline bad for children in public but of course you have to differentiate learning aggression.
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It's an odd dichotomy - one time we were in the grocery store where the cashier was complaining about the previous customer's child obnoxiously taking bags off the rack and dropping them on the floor. She wasn't happy that the parent made no attempt to stop the destructive behavior. Then one of ours got hysterical over something and my husband quietly told the child that he expected better of them. The cashier got very uptight and upset and told me repeatedly that she "didn't agree" with how my husband was treating the child. It scared me in one sense because she saw that as so threatening and I was worried about what she might do; but in another sense all I could think was that she was so critical of one parent for doing nothing to discipline their child and then so offended by another parent doing just a little bit to discipline theirs. Can't win!