抄録
The purpose of this study is to grasp how giving the children's rooms exerts influence upon how to use the rooms and also upon family's everyday life.
In this paper, the dwellers who live in the apartment houses of 3LDK type, have been inquired.
The following results were obtained.
1) The children's rooms are given priority on using the rooms, and securing the rooms for children prompts to divide the bed rooms of parents and children.
2) The reasons why the mothers have given and want to give the rooms to children are as follows : mothers' stress is laid upon children's studying and their independence in daily life much more than upon the cultivation of children's independent mind and the protection of privacy between parents and children.
3) As for the mothers' valuation of the change caused by giving the children their own rooms, it is found that many mothers place a high value on children's independence both in daily life and in mental life, and the protection of privacy between parents and children, while few of them point out its disadvantages.
