How do I share contacts with "Family Sharing"?

My wife and I had been sharing my iCloud account on 2 phones because we want our calendars and contacts synced. I'd rather use the Family Sharing, but it seems like it will not allow you to share contacts. Anyone know who we can do this without having to share the same iCloud account on 2 phones?
Thanks!

I have the same issue more or less.
iMac contacts are set up to support us both, some contacts are common, some for each individual, separated by groups. Prior to iOS 8 shared my iCloud account to get contacts and iCal across iMac and two iPhones. Just tried family share, worked fine for iCal but did share contacts for wife's phone, who was an invited group member. I understand that Family Share does not work for this operation. That is a FAIL in my opinion if true. Deleted family share. Now back to one iCloud account. Issue with one account is that I get all of her "recents" showing up in mail and messages and now on the home screen. I would really like to have things more separated.  All ideas are welcome!
Just read this:
My thinking is the the new Family Sharing is a FAIL and that following the advice of this article is still valid.
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/syncing-multiple-icloud-data- with-a-family-mac/

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