In this interesting article in The Atlantic the author asks the question "Why Do So Many Parents Think Kids Need Their Own Rooms?" With housing "requirements" expanding from aspirational to necessary, one of those "necessaries" seems to be kids each having their own room.

In fact, one of the commenters in the article said that they almost lost custody of their children because they couldn't give them their own rooms. Is that crazy?

What has been your experience, either as parents or as siblings? Did you have to share a room? Do you think it was good for you or bad for you?

It seems like a first-world problem to me. My four kids shared rooms, and I remember the smile I got every time I went upstairs to go to bed and heard my two boys whispering and laughing with their lights out. Not only that, but we also had only one full bath for the six of us. If that commenter risked losing custody, DH and I would probably be jailed for making the kids get up at 5:30 to start the line for the bathroom.

Thoughts?