Family Sharing Confusion

I have a few questions about family sharing.
I set myself up as the organizer.
I also added my wife and daughter (7yo) both of which were using my iTunes account info to purchase songs, movies, etc.
1) How do I set up their devices for family sharing?  Do I sign everyone into my iTunes account or sign them in with their own iCloud ID with no payment information for iTunes?
2) As the Family Sharing Organizer, Do I get the requests to purchase songs, etc from family members or does that go to my wife?  In Settings-iCloud-Family and click on wifes name, there is an on/off toggle for Parent/Guardian which will let her approve requests from our daughter.  If I enable this, will she get the requests or will I?
Thanks for any help with this.

Mails are pure and unaffected by all such sharing its to: [email protected] so likely somebody are mailing mails to you addressed to your wife the same situation could happen my phone or snail  mail

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