HT201365 How to use Find my Phone with secondary iCloud account in iOS 7

The ability to use Find my Phone with a secondary iCloud account has been removed in iOS 7.  I want to be able to track my children's phones, but don't want to share an iCloud account with them.  They know I am tracking their phones, and this worked fine for us prior to iOS 7.  On their phones, I had Find my Phone turned off under their iCloud, and then added my iCloud to their phone as a secondary account, and turned Find my Phone on under my iCloud account.  When I would launch Find my Phone on my phone, it would show me the location of all of my devices and of their phones. 
In iOS 7, Find my Phone is not listed under the secondary account.  What is the workaround for this?  I know that I can go to a PC and log into their iCloud account and see Find my Phone that way, but I can't do that from my iPhone because it is linked to my iCloud account.
Can I link two or more iCloud accounts in the Find my Phone app on my phone? 

Just ignore any prompts you get. Don't click the move to iCloud button and don't visit me.com/move. Just keep using mobileme as you have been.
The ONLY clickable button is "Open iCloud.com".  I have NO other options. (Using Mac OS on a MacPro)
( somehow my reply was marked as a correct answer, I did not do this, and I can find a way to remove it.)

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    ( somehow my reply was marked as a correct answer, I did not do this, and I can find a way to remove it.)

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