Icloud password loop when declining an ask to buy purchase using family sharing

My daughter asked to buy an app using family sharing. I received the notification on my phone and when I hit decline, it asks for my icloud password. When entered, it asks continuously and will not finalize declining the purchase. Same process on my wife's phone. We were able to approve a purchase, just not decline one.
Help please.
I am using a 4s, my daughter and wife both have 5cs. All running iOS8 with family sharing set up.

Thank you Ms. SJ!!!!
I was having this problem with my youngest daughters account.  Your post about establishing the payment history apart from family sharing made a lot of sense.  My oldest daughter has had an account for some time that she had been adding iTunes gift cards to, so her account was "established" before it was added to our family sharing group.  I had no trouble approving her purchases. 
I had set up an account for my youngest daughter a long time ago, but used it only for email and iMessage on her iPod.  My ID was used for purchases on the device.  After Family sharing was launched and she got an iPad for Christmas, I decided to set up her ID as the primary account on her new iPad and added her to family sharing. 
The first problem I ran into with Family Sharing was enabling the "Ask to Buy" function because since I set up accounts for my daughters a long time ago they were both showing as adults.  I learned from another post that the fix for this was to change their birthdates to January 1, 2001.  I did this and it has them listed as Age 14 on their family sharing profiles - fine. 
I then ran into the same problem with Ask to Buy that David Wilkie described above.  My fix was a little different from yours and less intensive. 
Removed my youngest daughter from family sharing
Purchased an app using her account alone (with an iTunes gift card attached) to establish a purchase history.
I then re-added her to our family sharing group. 
I had her purchase a song using "Ask to Buy" and it worked as expected. 
Thanks for going through the legwork with support to find this fix and share it.  I hope my experience can be helpful as well.

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