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Is it reallly wrong to plan to have more children than bedrooms?

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Difficultchoice · 24/11/2015 10:18

i've seen this a lot on Mn recently and people seem to be really cross when children sharing rooms is mentioned. I would love another but all our rooms are taken....more concerned about my age, time and money tbh.

So does the available space form part of other people's decisions? How important is that aspect?

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christmascracker2015 · 27/11/2015 18:16

I think it does show through that you have not been able to have the family size you would have liked. It is a shame that cultural norms in our culture have made it so many people need more stuff instead of family.

tobysmum77 · 27/11/2015 18:34

Its utterly bizarrre, to equate the number of children you can 'afford' to number of bedrooms. In my personal situation it works perfectly 2 children are more than enough and we have a 4 bed. If we were socially housed on the other hand if we had more than a 2 bed we would be paying bedroom tax.

There is a difference between need and want.

Do you know anyone who wishes they were never born because they had to share?

tobysmum77 · 27/11/2015 18:35

More than enough for me, that isn't clear in my post.

sammyjayneex · 27/11/2015 18:38

I don't see anything wrong with sharing
Ideally it would be nice for each child to have their own room but it doesn't really matter
I live in a 3 bed house ( small may I add) and I have 4 girls, 2 in one room and 2 in the other. I think they would be bored of they had their own room anyway Grin

confusedbumbo · 27/11/2015 18:56

I meant that you genuinely seem to think children are deprived if they have to share rooms. It's taking special snowflake-ism to the extreme. IMHO.

confusedbumbo · 27/11/2015 18:57

Sammy that was the exact set up I had growing up :)

Ragwort · 27/11/2015 19:08

We have five bedrooms for 3 of us Blush.

I don't like sharing a bedroom - even with my DH - I would have hated to share a room when I was growing up, I loved my own 'personal space' and still do.

But that's just my view, other people feel differently.

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