Family Sharing vs One Apple ID

Scenario before IOS 8:
My iPhone 5S linked to iCloud with MY AppleId.
     iMessage - MY AppleId & my phone number.
     FaceTime - MY AppleId & my phone number.
     Find my Friends - MY AppleId
     AppleStore - MY AppleId.
     Home Sharing - MY AppleId
My wife's 5S linked to ilCloud with MY AppleId.
     iMessage - HER AppleId & HER phone number
     Facetime - HER AppleId & HER phone number
     Find My Friends - HER AppleId
     AppleStore - My AppleId
     Home Sharing - My AppleId
Our family iPad3 linked to MY AppleId
     iMessage - my second AppleId
     FaceTime - my second  AppleId
     Find My Friends  - my Second AppleId
     AppleStore MY AppleId
     Home Sharing MY AppleId.
Our family iMac. Only one acount linked All services with MY AppleId
We share all App Store and iTunes purchases, iTunes Match, Photo Stream (we love this feature, authomatic broadcast all photos to iphones, ipad, imac and pcs) 
We don't share messages, facetime settings neither locations and our friends allways can get my location or my wife's.  
BUT we have only 5Gb free iCloud storage for backup iphones and ipad.  
Scenerio after IOS 8 and Family Sharing is setted up.
My iphone 5s - my appleId all services.
My wife's 5S - HER appleId all services.
OUR iPad - My daughter (unter 13yo) new AppleId
OUR  iMac - Only one account - MyAppleId all services.
We share new purchases, and a shared streram. Not iTunes Match neither old purchases,
We dont share messages, facetime settings neither location (findMyFriends). 
WE have 5Gb free iCloud storage per IOS Device for backups
BUT We cant share a photo stream AUTHOMATIC like my photostream was. We can not download my wife's iphone 5S photos to our family iMac, only my iphone photos.
We choose get back to old settings. My wife login icloud with MY AppleId. We get back sharing photo stream BUT NOW WE SHARE LOCATION in find my friends. Its all about a new restriction: We can only share location by One device. Apple has linked findMyFriends to iCloud account. EPIC FAIL. We need a login at find my friends in order to log in with differents appleIds.
We are dissapointed with Family Sharing but it's worst than we've supposed because getting back to old scenario with IOS 8 is impossible mission.
somebody help us please.
(Sorry about my english. I write from Spain).

Hi Jastect,
In order to edit an Child Apple Id you can just go to https://appleid.apple.com/ and log as your daughter and edit all data (except id itself and birthdate). This is possible only if you know the password :-) even without knowing, the recovery procedure is working fine.
In my case:
- I created an Child apple ID (as described in Family Sharing and Apple IDs for kids), child is -13y
- As mentioned in Leave Family Sharing : "Children under 13 can't be removed from a family. If you need to, you can transfer the child to another family or delete their Apple ID". ok, fair enough. Then I want to delete the id... But I cannot find where the delete option is available ???
Hopefully someone can help.

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