As a schoolboy, I lived next to a family with a six month-old baby: loud crying, hours on end, without interruption and without any apparent intervention by the parents. Time went on, the baby developed: loud and bad-tempered screaming, hours on end.
Three years later, we hadn't had a single night - 8PM to 8 AM - without the screaming. Not audible screaming, I mean intrusive noise, loud enough that you need to raise your voice in conversation, loud enough that you can't listen to music without losing the high notes, loud enough to interrupt your homework and your sleep. Not one night in three years; the only peace was us going on holiday, or them going. I do not doubt that the noise continued without an uninterrupted night while we weren't there to hear it.
But that was Leicester in the early eighties. You didn't complain to or about an Indian family: social services would come for you, not them. Maybe, in a new century, a quiet word to your neighbours, and later to the council, will do you some good.
But if you do nothing and say nothing, this is your life for the next three years: disruptive and dysfunctional families do not improve without external stimulus.
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Date: 2006-04-27 04:11 pm (UTC)As a schoolboy, I lived next to a family with a six month-old baby: loud crying, hours on end, without interruption and without any apparent intervention by the parents. Time went on, the baby developed: loud and bad-tempered screaming, hours on end.
Three years later, we hadn't had a single night - 8PM to 8 AM - without the screaming. Not audible screaming, I mean intrusive noise, loud enough that you need to raise your voice in conversation, loud enough that you can't listen to music without losing the high notes, loud enough to interrupt your homework and your sleep. Not one night in three years; the only peace was us going on holiday, or them going. I do not doubt that the noise continued without an uninterrupted night while we weren't there to hear it.
But that was Leicester in the early eighties. You didn't complain to or about an Indian family: social services would come for you, not them. Maybe, in a new century, a quiet word to your neighbours, and later to the council, will do you some good.
But if you do nothing and say nothing, this is your life for the next three years: disruptive and dysfunctional families do not improve without external stimulus.