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Originally Posted by Gnome72141
My neighbors growing up through college were a large Catholic family of 9 people, total. (two parents, the wife's sister, and 6 kids) They had the same house we did, but mirror image. Small, a few bedrooms, one bathroom with a shower with a sliding glass door. I was in the house a few times.
My sister stayed there a few times, and she said there was NO privacy. If you took a shower, people would see you. If you changed your clothes, people would see you.
I just wondered if the husband every got to see his wife's sister...were the adults more private, or did he see his sister in law shower, or what is the story there? I would have love to have known!
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I grew up with several family friends that were Catholic homeschool families. One had 14 kids, another had 12, and another had 11. These families were spread over quite a age range so a couple were out of the house by the time the last ones were born but there were still 10-12 people under one roof at the peak. The 14 kid family had tons of money because the father had invented something and got royalties off of it. They had a big house. The other two had 4 bed 2 or three bath houses so privacy was at a premium. I remember by best friend and I would spend the night at the 12 kid family sometimes because they had a son our age. of the 12, only 4 were boys and our friend was one of the younger kids. I remember his sisters were super prude ankle length dresses/skirts holier than thou types. We would sleep in a tent out in the yard because it was so crowded in the house. They lived on a farm and had no blinds or curtains on the windows. We would always pitch our tent in the yard on the side of the house facing the older sisters' windows and would get a show of them changing. We probably pitched a smaller tent too
There was another Catholic homeschool family that had only five kids but they had a two bedroom one bathroom house. All the kids slept in one room with bunk beds. I don't know how the privacy thing worked there. They were way out there weird. They went to Latin mass only and were super judgmental. They dressed kind of like the Amish minus the beards and bonnets. The boys worked on the dairy farm and the girls kept house for the family and for the grandma who owned the dairy and lived on the property. It reminded me of cinderella. One time I was hanging out with the boys and we were swimming in the irrigation cannel. One of the girls joined us. She took off her dress and was wearing mid thigh shorts and a modest tank top type thing. Her dad caught her there and even though it was innocent, dragged her back to the house and I later found out he beat the shit out of her for being "immodest". They had way out there political views too. Ironically (or maybe not), that sister got knocked up when she was 19 by a migrant worker that worked in their milk barn.