How to share a photo stream w/ family account

I have searched for two days for a solution, but could not find one.
Our setup is as follows:
One iMac at home, where iPhoto and Yosemite is running on.
My wife has an iPhone 5S with iOS8 and I have one, too.
We have an iCloud Family Account, and she has her own Apple-ID, but is part of the family account.
Prob:
Photos she is taking are not added automatically to the iMac - iPhoto Photostream. It only works with MY Photostream. It seems that one could only have a photo stream for one Apple-ID, regardless of a Family Account setup.
I have created a shared Family iCloud - Album, but I find this too cumbersome, since she needs to add photos manually to it all the time and secondly I don't know if these are added automatically to the iPhoto Media Lib on the iMac.
Desired solution: Without sharing the same Apple ID both iPhones should have a Photostream (not a shared iCloud album), and this photo stream should automatically add photos to the Media Lib on the iMac. Sort of a "shared photo stream".
Many thanks in advance - hopefully somebody has cracked this nut before me :-)
Best, Georg

Where are you looking?
There are a few ways to do it. You can select a photo in the Photo app then tap the Share button, there should be a Photo Stream button where you can add a new Photo Stream. Or from the Photo Stream section of the Photo app tap the (plus) button in the top left corner.
If these options are not available check Settings/iCloud/Photo Stream to ensure both My Photo Stream and Shared Photo Stream are turned on.

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