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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think it's abusive to have kids share a room but I will admit that my own experience sharing with my older sister (who HATED it, and took it out on me) contributed to a decision to not have another kid because it would require doubling up.

It's not abusive for kids to share (families used to live in one room altogether for goodness sake, let's not be precious) but it is harder on the kids not to have privacy and if they do share, you need to make an effort to ensure that it's fair and that one child isn't dominating the space or using the shared space an excuse for cruelty, like my sister did. She used to lock me out of our room if I got up to pee in the middle of the night, or I'd come home and she'd have stripped my bed of sheets and tell me I needed to sleep on the couch. My parents not only didn't say anything to her, but the reprimanded me for "annoying" big sis.

Obviously we would have handled a shared room differently, but the memory is scarring and made me queasy about the idea of forcing it on our existing daughter.[/quote]

That's terrible. Sorry you had to deal with that. That is definitely something your parents should have used as a teaching opportunity.[/quote]

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