One Northern Ireland caller to the helpline told the NSPCC about a toddler and child of primary school age whose mother drank every day until late in the evening while the children were in her care, sometimes passing out and not hearing when the children cried.

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All guests partake in mulled wine, an evening meal of cheese fondue, a hot whirlpool bath in the snow and sometimes a nighttime snowshoe trip.

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In her film, Khushf documents male programmers sleeping on couches and settling in to the office for the evening -- sometimes all night -- to eat pizza and play video games.

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Sometimes the internet connection to my home in the evenings slow down as dads surf those places that dads sometimes surf in the evening while their children watch YouTube videos and chat on Facebook.

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Sometimes she was out for the evening and all I could see were the flickering colored lights of the TV in the family room.

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