Family sharing actually is not Family but App Store sharing

I convinced my mother to purchase a brand new iPhone 6 because of the many features iOS and the whole Apple environment brings to the table. One of those features would be Family sharing.
Turns out it's not working due to a hidden restriction that Apple fails to mention in its presentation of Family Sharing - until one has bought an iPhone and hits the snag: Your family member(s) immediately aren't part of your family once they're using a different App store.
I'm frequently traveling between Europe and the US and I don't even have European credit card whereas my mother lives in Europe. Is she member of my family? Yes. Can we use Family sharing? No. The term "Family sharing" is a misnomer that lured my mother into buying a new iPhone with a now limited set of features.
We both also have recent MacBook Pros - 2012 and 2013 Retina models. Guess what, Family sharing doesn't work under OS X either.
Has it slipped Apple's mind that there are plenty of different App stores outside the US and that the current way Family sharing is implemented in both iOS and OS X will lead to plenty of disgruntled customers?
My mother has already contacted Apple regarding this issue and it looks like there is little Apple can do at the moment. I'm seriously disappointed and I have told my mother to return her phone for a refund. I have posted this in the forum because users might have ideas on how to solve (or circumvent) this problem.
Thank you.

I haven't seen any replies, so I thought I'd raise it again to see if anyone is successfully using
Family Sharing. If so... can they describe how they set it up?
Specifically:
Under ITunes | Family Purchases | <user>, do they correctly see the purchases for each user
Can everyone in the family see the purchases of others, even if they were made before family sharing was set up?
Do you need to authorise every device in the Family to play the music from every account?
Many thanks for any advice you can give on this.
I've also emailed apple support directly and got nothing back for a week.
Cheers.
Paul

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