One iTunes account for family or each their own?

My 16 year old daughter has an iPhone 4; I just got a 5. I have an iTunes account and have enabled home sharing. Should she have her own account or is one sufficient for us both? Recommendations, Please and thanks!

Good question.
I like the idea of each person staying out of the other's way, so generally my opinion would be each should have their own account.
However, I don't think a 16 year old is allowed to have their own Apple ID. I believe the minimum age is 18.
So maybe Apple has a way around that (like have a parent in custody of a child's account). I'm not smart enough to know.
The advantage of individual accounts is you won't get each other's mail, texts, etc.

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JoeyV325 wrote:
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Hi,
Recently I purchased an iPod Touch for my wife. Prior to this we had no clue how to use iTunes, ipods etc. We installed iTunes on our main home computer and created an iTunes account for my wife using her email address. I attached my credit card to this account. My wife purchased several apps, music and videos.
A few weeks later I decided to purchase an iPhone. I installed iTunes on my laptop and created an iTunes account using my email address. I attached the same credit card to this account. I quickly purchased several apps, music and videos.
Firstly, I wasn't really aware of how the licensing to purchasing apps, music, videos and other items really worked. For example, if I purchase an app or song, I then am able to share my purchase across other ipods/iphones in my household. I had assumed that a purchase could only be used on one computer/ipod combination. In other words, an app I purchased could only be used on my iPhone and accessed from my laptop. As far as I can tell, my initial assumption was wrong.
I have since obtained an older iPod model for my daughter. I have installed iTunes on her computer but have not attached it to an account.
Here's my dilemma. I would like to setup our iTunes on each computer in such a way that we can all share purchases. This can be done using the Home Sharing option in iTunes 9. The problem is that each computer needs to be using the same iTunes account in order to share content across each computer. I guess I should have only used one account when setting up my wife's iTunes and mine? In my case, my wife and I both have separate accounts with different purchases?!?
So my question is, how can I take the purchases made on my wife's account and transfer them to my account so that we can effectively stop using her account and only use mine? Is this possible?
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

Thanks for the suggestions. I still can't get this to work properly.
Here's what I want to do. I want to be able to share my wife's library and my library through home sharing. Also, I would like to share our app purchases as well. Finally, I would like to have my daughters computer to also access our libraries. My daughter doesn't have an account.
Here's what I did. I authorized all 3 computers to use my account. I authorized all 3 computers to use my wife's account. I then clicked on 'Turn on home sharing' on my computer and used my account details to turn it on. I then did the same on my wife's computer, using my account details to turn it on. My wife is able to see my library items but I can not see hers? I imagine doing the reverse would result in the reverse result.
Also, assuming I did setup home sharing properly, this only allows you to automatically share purchases made after the home share has been set up and not before. So how do I go about sharing the purchases made before?
Thanks again for your time and help.

One iTunes account for family or each their own?

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