> I don't mind having a parent account, but you cannot have family accounts without an Ipad or some other apple device, and a single ipad is a single user device.
You can't just log in to the ipad with a parent account, create a child account, log out, then log back in with the child account?
You should be able to. I did this back-and-forth for over a year before it was easier to change account regions. I'd have a US account and a Canadian account, and would switch between the two to get content from the other side of the border.
You can even sign in to one account for iCloud, and another for the App Store, if you wanted to. The only thing that didn't work were automatic updates; they'd only get downloaded for the iCloud account.
You can't just log in to the ipad with a parent account, create a child account, log out, then log back in with the child account?