Facetime calling multiple devices

In our house, we have 1 iphone  and 2 new ipods.  We share an apple id but have different facetime email addresses.  Recently, when my son gets a facetime "call" it, it calls all 3 devices.  The person is only using his email address for facetime.  Is there a setting somewhere that I accidently turned on?  Thanks!!!!

There is a setting.  Evidently at some point, the apple id email got added to the facetime settings as an alternate or even primary email.  I was able to remove it from the other devices and all is well

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