Share iCloud KeyChain & Bookmarks?

Hey gang... I have a question as it relates to iCloud and more specifically, icloud Keychain.
Up until now, the way my wife and I have things setup is we have one family icloud account which we use for all our iTunes and Apple Store purchases and then we each have our own separate icloud account for our personal emails, calendars etc.
Would it be a good idea to use the Family iCloud account as both of our main accounts on iOS devices so we can share/sync bookmarks and iCloud Keychain and then our separate personal icloud account would be added as a second account.
The downside to this approach is since the iOS 7 upgrade, Apple only allows the primary icloud account on the iOS device to have documents/data, bookmarks and keychain. Secondary accounts do not have these options. This will result in us certainly going over the free GB storage provided by iCloud since we back our devices to the cloud.
Any suggestions/recommendations? We share approximately 80-90% of our website logins to most message boards, financial sites etc so it would make sense to have a shared iCloud Keychain that is always in sync and up to date.
Thanks
Marco

Yep - I just ran into this for iCloud Keychain. Like you, I've set up for my wife and I a shared iCloud account that we use for Contacts and Calendar so we always have the same data on our iPhones and Macbooks.
We've also used a shared LastPass account for a few years. I just got a 5s with the fingerprint reader and thought that was worth trying to switch to iCloud Keychain. However, I quickly ran into this dumb limitation of Apple not allowing this for a non-primary iCloud account. This totally makes the feature useless for us - like you - and like many other families.
iCloud in general is just not designed with sharing/families in mind, which is very sad. This hurts their customers in many areas including iBooks, NewsStand, Pages/Numbers/Keynote with docs stored in iCloud. Do they really expect a family to buy multiple copies of the same book? To have to email documents to each other to share (forget about collaborative editing)? Even setting up shared calendar and contacts that I did took a lot of work and would be beyond the ability of a large percentage of home users.
I don't suppose anyone here has any connection to Apple developers who could give some sort of response to this issue? I guess I could go to one of my local Apple Stores and talk to a "Genious" about this. I'm sure it would be an exercise in futility like I've had on several previous occasions when asking about iOS and/or OSX features. It always starts with some confusion in trying to get them to understand what I'm asking. That's usually followed by comments from them to the effect of "why would anyone want to do that". And, finally, if I can convince them that it's actually something really useful, followed by comments to the effect of "It just doesn't do that. Thanks for coming in!".
Maybe I won't bother

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