Multi-Million/Billionaires Owning Farms
Society & Culture1 min ago
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I was looking into this myself a few months ago & it is not illegal at any age. There is a recommendation that if you are renting property out, children of different sex over the age of 13 should not be forced to share a room. However, as far as I could find out at the time even that is not enforceable. (The housing regs are more concerned with square footage - i.e. how many people are forced to share rooms in rented accommodation).
I'm afraid I can't find the website links I had to back this up but I can confirm that this was verbally confirmed by the Social Services dept I was dealing with at the time.
Hi nykkieberry,
I agree with the above answers but I can add how the 'law' manifests itself.
If you are renting accommodation and make a housing benefit claim; the amount of benefit to which you are entitled is limited by a number of factors.
One of these factors is the number / age / sex of your dependant children.
If you have, say, 2 children who younger than 13 then those children will be expected to share a bedroom, even if they are of different sexes.
Once one of those different sex children passes 13 then you can claim for 2 bedrooms (1 each).
However, if both children are the same sex, then you may only claim for 1 bedroom because they are expected to share however old they are.
So, if a man and a woman (partners) have 2 children of different sexes who are below 13 and they apply for a 3 bedroomed house; they are likely to have their claim for housing benefit reduced because their need is only for a 2 bedroomed house.
I think that the same logic applies if you are applying for social housing to work out how many bedrooms you are entitiled to; though I have no expertise in this area.
Also, the details may vary from local authority to local authority; some may enforce the rules more strictly than others; some may be more flexible if you can make a case for special needs (eg disabled child with wheel-chair, etc)
Apart from housing benefit claims and social housing allocation, I'm pretty sure there are no laws about who anyone shares a bedroom with. Of course, it is illegal for certain close relatives to have sexual intercourse, but that is a different matter!
yes auctuly there is a law that if and oppisate sex (boy and a girl) can not share a room!lets say as an example a girl is 7 and a boy is 5 they can not share a room! if at least 2 years appart they may not share a room! how do i kno u ask? i read it on a website if i still had the link i would be happy to give it to u but i am sorry i dont have the link!
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