After living next door to quiet and distant (although we spoke /took in each other's parcels all the very civil things) neighbours for 22 years , I was looking forward to a new family moving in with dc's of 8,5 and 1. So basically since day 1 I have spoken to the mum once when I went round to welcome them and never to the dad, dh has spoken to the dad once because the dad knocked here to collect a parcel but was very brief, and dh has never spoken to the mum this is all since September 2015. The pattern of behaviour that troubles us is that although we can hear the children and the dad shouting/playing through the wall or because sound travels through their conservatory Windows (whether we're inside or in the garden) we have never heard the mum's voice , not once and the children not very often considering their ages, but what we DO hear is the dad losing his temper even when he seems to have been playing with them for a while, then we can clearly hear him swearing at them at the top of his voice and a few days ago this resulted in the 8year old thundering up the stairs and his voice came through the bedroom window crying 'so this is my life', my heart broke for him.msorry for the long explanation but this is a quiet area and I know parents have drastically different ways of dealing with their children but I just don't agree with swearing at or even in front of children and my DH is just as surprised by this behaviour as he has never used bad language in front of our dc's. Any thoughts? Thanks