Can different icloud accounts be linked to the same apple id

I'm not exactly sure how to word this, but we have one apple ID for iTunes - I have an iPod, along with my son and husband.  We share the library.  Well, we all downloaded ios5 which includes the iCloud, and now my son is seeing my contacts and calendar on his ipod!  Is there any way to avoid this?  Can two apple ids share a music library?  This is quite annoying.  My husband is getting his iPhone any day, and we're going to have the same issues.
I'm concerned about other things that might be shared - like does my son have access to my email or anything else??
thanks,
K

The way to avoid such a problem is to have different user accounts on the computer. One for you, one for your husband, and one for your son. Each of you should get your own separate Apple ID from your respective user account. Since an Apple ID is an email address you should each have separate email addresses. Each of your respective devices then get synced within you individual user accounts and Apple IDs. Everybody is separate. In that way your son can't see your information (and you can't see his.)
Privacy is assured with this arrangement. Control can be assured by having a single Admin user account that could belong to your husband, for example. The other accounts are Standard or Managed accounts. In this way your son cannot make changes to data that does not belong to him nor make changes to the computer's configuration. Only the admin user can install software.
Managed accounts are handled via Parental Controls in the Users & Groups preferences.

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