Send Mail to Contact Group

I'm helping someone set up their new iPad. One of the most common tasks she hopes to use it for is sending e-mail to several groups. On her iMac she has the groups set up in Contacts. To send a message to them she opens mail, selects the group, and all the addresses populate the To: field.
The groups are there in iOS on the iPad too, but there doesn't seem to be any way to select them when you're sending a mail message. If you go to the + button, click Groups (little back arrow), and click the group it just adds or removes the little check mark by the group name. There's no way to chose the group to say "send to all these people."
You CAN select just the specific group, go to the contact list, and tap each name one at a time to populate the To: field, but with 50+ e-mail addresses... That's NOT a solution, that's a pain.
There must be some way in iOS to send mail messages to everyone in a contact group... BUT HOW?
Thanks!

Um, Apple... REALLY? Why on earth would they leave out something this fundamental?
Please tell me they added it in iOS 7. This is one of the primary reasons my friend bought the iPad. She's considering ditching it because it can't do something as fundamental as send to a group.
Thanks!

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