In America, are siblings not allowed to share rooms? - The Glass House (2001) Discussion

[–] BulletProof011308 11 years ago

It just isn't normal for opposite sex siblings to be forced to share a room. It isn't fair. And it seemed like they had a big enough house to let them be separate.

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[–] lisac_2829 10 years ago

It didn't have anything to do with opposite sex as much as it was because of the age difference. My brother and I (I'm a girl) shared a room until we were 10 (we are twins). We were simply getting too old to share a room together by our pre-teens. By the way...we are talking 24 years ago.

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[–] concerned_local_resident 11 years ago

I am unsure of the exact laws in the states but here in the UK once children hit the age of teenage years I am sure they have to be split up wise, aside from the law it's just plain wrong and creepy to have children of that age sharing a room.

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[–] flora_tink-1 11 years ago

i get the whole thing about how there is more than enough room for her to have her own but i just didn't see it as a big deal? My friend was telling me that when one reaches a certain age they have to be split up, which i never knew that *shrugs*
i suppose if it's two brothers or two sisters it wouldn't be a big deal. I imagine it has to do with them being the opposite genders.

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[–] asdf189756 10 years ago

Really? I am in the UK and most of my friends shared with their siblings until they left home

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[–] yusef-ghanima 10 years ago

maybe they were poor, even in lower middle class people a teenage boy would sleep on the couch or something in the living room. very poor people sleep in one room with parents, poor guys when they want to have sex!

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[–] BHt88 9 years ago

In CA once you're 12. I think u can't
No boys with girls for pretty much obvious reasons but then again
Girls can like girls and vice versa,so...

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[–] parisel 11 years ago

Since the house was big, and there was another bedroom, why did they make them sleep in the same room?

It is creepy, so why did the Glasses do it? Everything those people did was sinister, so why that?

I guess it's like looking at clouds. You see one thing and I see another. Peace.

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[–] MaraudersFan 10 years ago

There is no law in the States about different gender siblings only sharing a room until a certain age. However most people those ages wouldn't want to since they want their privacy and their own space they can go too. Ruby was 16 and her brother 11 so it makes sense she wouldn't want to share a room with him if she did not have too. Now if there was only one room they would have had to make do. They could have put some sort of divider up to give them each a little bit of privacy.

I don’t really get why the Glasses put them in the same room to start in the first place seeing they had the other room and possible even other rooms. I'd think a house like that probably had four bedrooms. Seems they would have been wanting to keep them appeased. There must be a reason for putting them in the same room at first but I don't see it. The kids parents had just died, they had to leave their home, school and friends. Move into a new place they'd never been. One might think that they felt the kids would find it comforting at least for a few nights to share a room with all the changes that were happening in their life. However that seems doubtful that would have been the Glasses motive for having them share a room at first.

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[–] sparksfly21 8 years ago

Parisel --- its about control

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[–] llbfgt 9 years ago

In cases of foster care each child has to have their own room which to me seems excessive. Also the opposite gender issue does not fly with social workers and the "system" in California and I would assume any state in the U.S.

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[–] nomade-5 8 years ago

Maybe because of their financial woes, they couldn't set up a room for her.
I didn't have my own room growing up, and had to share the living room with my sibling, and I turned out just fine.

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