'xactly.
I don't understand why a council house tenant is entitled to one bedroom per child. Most of us in my class at primary school shared bedrooms with our siblings, it was seen as a bit posh to have your own bedroom before you were about ten.
( sanityclause is waiting until, Fri 28 May 2010, 15:14, 2 replies)

Definitely this.

( Bob Todd whee, Fri 28 May 2010, 15:15, closed)

I think it's something to do with the massive overcrowding that epitomised the slums in the early 20th C.
and that, after a certain age (I think - may be wrong) - 14 or something - girls particularly are legally entitled to their own room. I think this is to provide an area in which they can start generating more babies, in order to then get a house of their own.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 28 May 2010, 15:23, closed)