Transferring purchases out of my iTunes account and into new accounts for my kids

I have had an itunes account for a number of years.  My children (when younger) purchased music, games, videos, etc through this account for the ipods, itouches, etc.  We now have iphones for each teen and would like to give them their own accounts so that only their purchases appear on their phones, ipods, etc and only mine appear on my phone, ipad, etc.  I would set up 2 new accounts and transfer the items directly from mine into the appropriate child's account.  How do I accomoplish this?  Since we own the purchase, I dont see any reason why we should not be able to move that purchase into another account (not copying it, but more like cutting it out of the existing account and moving it into the new one).  If we are not able to do this, we are talking about hundreds of dollars in re-purchases.

You canot transfer content to another account.
Just authorize their computers for your account so they can sycn the apps to their devices.

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