One primary apple account and to add family members

I have a apple account which we all shared as a family but now as my children have emails and phone of their own we need to share the one primary account for payment etc but don't want to see messages for each other on our devices etc. I was told by an apple tech person that i could just click on FAMILY SHARE but I can't find this.
any suggestions

If your iPad is on iOS 8 (and their phones are on iOS 8) then you can set up family sharing via Settings > iCloud : Family Sharing - Apple Support
Family sharing guide : http://www.apple.com/icloud/family-sharing/
Family purchases : Family purchases and payments - Apple Support
For Messages and/or FaceTime they should use their own account's in Settings > Messages and Settings > FaceTime

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