Child Sleeping Arrangement

My husband and I are considering two children. We only have a two bedroom home and I have heard that you cannot have a boy and girl in the same bedroom past a certain age. Is there any truth to this--and should we start looking for a new home? (Indiana)

[This message has been edited by Lonniesf (edited August 22, 2000).]

[I AM ALWAYS LIABLE]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Lonniesf:
[b]My husband and I are considering two children. We only have a two bedroom home and I have heard that you cannot have a boy and girl in the same bedroom past a certain age. Is there any truth to this--and should we start looking for a new home? (Indiana)

[This message has been edited by Lonniesf (edited August 22, 2000).][/b]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

My response:

Where do these old wives tales get started?

When I was just a lad, I shared a room with my sister until we were 13 and 16, respectively. Then I kicked her out, when "Always Searching" came around knocking at my door.

Seriously, there's no law that I ever heard of that requires brother and sister to not share a room, at any age. If that were the case, then the State would be buying homes for everyone. On second thought, perhaps in Kentucky there IS such a law . . .

IAAL


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[This message has been edited by I AM ALWAYS LIABLE (edited August 23, 2000).]

IAAL you are so cute!!!

I just wanted to say that when you have children, you don't even have to worry about the bedroom because you won't sleep for the first few years. They they are safe and happy for a few years...then they go out with their friends and you loose a lot of sleep again. So the bedroom won't even be an issue. Chances are, the children won't even like the sleeping arrangements and prefer warm bodies preferably inbetween you and your husband. You won't have to worry about creating any more children because their radar is better than military issue. They know when romance is on the horizon, then they get fussy. So consider away....and remember there isn't any sleep for years!!!

I know that in Massachusetts there is no such law. My sister and her husband tried to get custody of his 6 year old son, and one of the reasons they gave is that he shares a bedroom with his 3 year old sister. The judge said that was perfectly fine.

[MySonsMom]

That's interesting to know. I have always heard that there was a law against a boy and girl sharing the same room after a certain age..But I guess that old wives tail is just that..I know I've learned something today!

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~MySonsMom~

I believe the only time this is an issue is when fostering children that are not related or possibly with adopting. But I am not sure there is a LAW - I just know from my parents fostering children that if we had fostered a boy, first we would have had to have 2 boys (because my father was the only other male in the household), and second he (or they, rather) would have to have their own room not shared with one of the girls. This would have prevented us from fostering boys.

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by newmom:
[b]I believe the only time this is an issue is when fostering children that are not related or possibly with adopting. But I am not sure there is a LAW - I just know from my parents fostering children that if we had fostered a boy, first we would have had to have 2 boys (because my father was the only other male in the household), and second he (or they, rather) would have to have their own room not shared with one of the girls. This would have prevented us from fostering boys.[/b]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>


Dear NewMom:

Good to hear from you again.

While your version appears to, at least, have good validity in "common sense" for obvious reasons, our writer was asking about the potential for legal risk of the sleeping arrangements of her own, future, "natural" children.

Now, I know you knew that . . . I just merely wanted to keep things clarified for other readers.

Again, good to hear from you.

IAAL

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Thanks to everyone for their responses. In doing further research on my own, I found that this applies only to public housing and other public facilities, but not to private residences.

Lonniesf

Lonniesf- where did you find that out? I've been looking and looking for the same information and haven't found any laws restricting how many kids you can pile in a bedroom.
I'm actually in a custody case (in Indiana)where I could possibly lose a child to an existing family of 6 (aunt, uncle, and cousins-3f,1m)in a small 2 bedroom apartment(in Illinois)...so I would love to find out that overcrowding would be a problem for them. I know that every time I (or one of my friends) looks at an apartment, the number of kids in each bedroom is always brought up, but I haven't been able to find any laws about this. let me know -thanks

[MySonsMom]

I do know that where I live, (Iowa) you can have 2/per bedroom in certain apartments. I'm not sure if that goes for all apartments, but I know one apartment I had looked at states that only 2 people per bedroom is allowed. Now I don't know if that is a state or apartment complex rule..but I do remember that.

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~MySonsMom~