Who cares about the children?

In this period of time the fysical abuse of children is happening, but not so often as before. Nowadays it is the psychical terror, for instance by NPD-mothers and fathers. It happens, we know people with NPD around us and we know they have children. We hear the parent talk about the bad relationship with her/his children. And we think: oh my god, that kid has troubles with such a parent.
But what can we do?

Here's what I said on another thread:

My mother is NPD (diagnosed).
From my experience, unless there is another parent's/person's very strong healthy influence consistently surrounding the young child to counter the influence of the disordered parent, the child of someone with diagnosable NPD will most certainly grow up with emotional damage. It takes work to address and heal from that damage.

LifeSong wrote:Here's what I said on another thread:

My mother is NPD (diagnosed).
From my experience, unless there is another parent's/person's very strong healthy influence consistently surrounding the young child to counter the influence of the disordered parent, the child of someone with diagnosable NPD will most certainly grow up with emotional damage. It takes work to address and heal from that damage.

What I mean is, when a kid is fysical hurt we can warn the authorities, but when we think there is psychical hurting, we can do nothing.