Itunes Match Family Sharing Not Working

Hello,
My parents have purchased iTunes Match, and they have also enabled ITunes family sharing, with my father's account being the "organizer" and my mother's being an authorized user.  I have checked both their phones, and all iCloud/iTunes Match functionalities are turned on on both their phones.  However, whenever my father purchases music through iTunes on his phone or computer, only sometimes does the content show up on iTunes on my Mother's phone, other times it does not.  Has anyone else experienced this problem? Is there some hidden functionality that needs to be turned on?  I am not inexperienced with tech issues, but I cannot figure out for the life of me why this issue is recurring.

Hello Jimzgoldfinch,
After reading through the forums, I see iTunes Match does not work with family sharing.  I believe that I may have conflated my issue.  My parents are not having a problem with iTunes Match songs (songs uploaded to iCloud from computer) not being shared.  Instead, they are having issues with songs purchased from iTunes directly not being shared across both their accounts.  The issue occurs regardless of whether the songs are purchased by my father, the "organizer" of the iTunes sharing, or by my mother. 
Am I correct in assuming (since I was not the one to setup iTunes Family Sharing, and have not dealt with it before) that iTunes Sharing is supposed to allow music purchased by any of the accounts associated with the family "organizer" to be accessed by all of the accounts associated?  This assumes, again, that the content is shareable (which the website says iTunes music purchased from iTunes is).
If I need to repost this question in a different forum, I will do so.
Thanks for the help so far.

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