How to spawn a prefab with NetworkBehavior children?

I have a complex prefab which has a NetworkBehavior, and it has several children with NetworkBehaviors. When I spawn the prefab, it spawns on the clients correctly, but the child objects are not spawned properly. They are instantiated on the clients, but they are not updated. If I try to spawn the child elements on the server, I get multiple copies of the parent prefab on clients, and the children are still not updated properly. Is this a bug, or is this intentional, and if it is, what is the recommended workaround?

 

DrWypeout this might not relate but there is a limitation with nested prefabs and not holding all the lower level data properly. Might be worth having a look at that?

Also having multiple layers of networkBehaviours may not work either, because as per documentation:
http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-NetworkBehaviour.html
An object that has a networkbehaviour attached to it must be spawned directly, so when you spawn the parent, it wont spawn the children objects if I understand correctly.