Family sharing notifications freezing other devices

Hello,
We are having the strangest problem with family sharing. When my 13 year old daughter, who is set up for Ask To Buy, requests to download an app, or purchase an in-app, my wife and I both receive notifications on our phones and iPads. However when we try to select them from the notification dropdown screen the phone seems to lock up. The top bar with the battery and signal strength meters gets dark and looks distorted and nothing works on the phone/ipad. I can't scroll through the notifications or close the screen. I can push the home button and get back to the home screen but it freezes there for 10-15 seconds. The notifications are not availble under the icloud/family sharing menus in settings like there where originally and the only place I can find the notification is in the pull down screen. Still, touching them freezes the device.
This behavior is occuring on both of our iphone 6's and both of our iPads. Everyone is running IOS 8.1.1. We have four members of Family Sharing (2 adults and 2 kids 13 and 15).
I have no idea what is going on. I even removed each of the kids from Family Sharing and just added one back at a time. Notification behavior was the same.
I also completly deleted the Family Share and then recreated it. Still, all notifications freeze the adult devices. What the heck?

Just figured it out. Family Share does not work for In-App purchases. As soon as my child sent me a request for an app (not an In-App) purchase it worked fine. From my other research on this discussion board it appears that Family Share is not supposed to work with In-App purchases. My guess is that Apple will fix this because Apple (and the app developers) will loose out on a lot of money if families can't easily make In-App purchases.

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