Family sharing - option to pay individually?

When using the family sharing feature in iTunes, can an individual choose to purchase their own music?
For example, my wife now gets prompted to enter/confirm my credit card details whenever she tries to pay for her own music, which is not what we want.

ed2345 wrote:
m0thr4 wrote:
Wow... so under this system, my wife is relegated to the same status as my children?
Well, I didn't use the word "relegated," but as you noticed, Family Sharing is designed with one family organizer.  Here is the info from Apple:
To get started, one adult in your household—the family organizer—sets up Family Sharing, invites up to five additional family members, and agrees to pay for any iTunes, iBooks, and App Store purchases they initiate while part of the family group.
Yes I saw that... but I didn't realise this then prevents the family members from making their own purchases if they wish.
There are many benefits to Family Sharing, besides purchasing content, that I wanted to take advantage of, but the way in which it's modelled on a 1950's "single breadwinner" idea of a family is somewhat unpalatable.

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