How to publish a family shared calendar?

In Calendar, Apple allows users to make a calendar public and share it over the internet with a webcal address. However, I can't seem to find this function for the Family shared calendar that is automatically created when Family Sharing is activated in iOS 8. Is there any way to publish a Family Sharing calendar so that other people can subscribe to it?

Well, I figured a way to do this - sort of. Note; this is NOT the most elegant solution, nor a full/real fix. At least you will get a read only version of the Family calendar. The caveat in this is that you require Microsoft Outlook at some point. To make matters worse, I'm not exactly sure of the steps I took.
My basic scenario is that our family has a Mac at home along with iPhones, but I use Windows at work. Somewhere along the line I installed iCloud for Windows at work - and I believe during that install it saw that I have Outlook installed on my machine, and sometime during that process it created a link in Outlook to my the shared Family calendar.
I am a bit vague on this because I don't actually use Outlook on a regular basis. I was trying it out some time ago and never went further with it, and I only went to check it after I started looking into this Family calendar nonsense. I note that now I can CREATE an event in Outlook and it will propagate back to Family Calendar and show up on our mobile device(s).
Within Outlook, if you right click on the Family Calendar and select Sharing Settings (Image 1) you will find an option to "Publish a link to a read-only version of this calendar on iCloud.com" (Image 2). Press the Copy Link button... then use that in your other application (Google Calendar for me).
Not exactly the best solution... but until I find something else...

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It sounds like you may need to change the settings for access to the Family Calendar. See if this section of the iPad User Guide applies to your situation:
Share iCloud calendars - iPad User Guide
http://help.apple.com/ipad/8/#/iPadc2a14a22
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Hope that helps ...
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Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
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