Nested View not getting data from parent controller in Laravel 5.1

I'm building an Employee Management system and The employee part works good but when i try to create for family members for an employee i have a problem. I was hoping i can create a family member for an employee in such a way localhost/mysite/employees/5/families/create

Here are my files P.S - I have omitted some of the code which i thought was irrelevant. For example, there are more than 30 employee fields that i save. For this question i just displayed the FirstName

routes.php

Route::resource('employees', 'EmployeesController');
Route::resource('employees.families', 'FamiliesController');

EmployeesController.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Carbon\Carbon;
use App\Employee;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use DB;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;


class EmployeesController extends Controller
{

    public function index()
    {              
        //Stuff that works well on employees/index
    }

    public function create()
    {
        //Stuff that works well on employees/create
    }

    public function store(Request $request)
    {
        //Stuff that works well     
    }


    public function show(Employee $employee)
    {
        $employee=Employee::find($EmployeeID);
        return view('employees.show', compact('employee'));
    }


    public function edit($EmployeeID)
    {
        $employee=Employee::find($EmployeeID);          
        return view('employees.edit',compact('employee'));
    }


    public function update(Request $request, $EmployeeID)
    {
         //Stuff that works well on employees/edit
    }

}

Employee.php (Model)

<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\SoftDeletes;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Employee extends Model
{
    use SoftDeletes;

    protected $dates = ['deleted_at'];

    protected $primaryKey = 'EmployeeID';

    protected $fillable=[
        'Name'
    ];

    public function families()
    {
        return $this->hasMany('App\Family');
    }
}

FamilyController.php (For now i only posted the index and create methods)

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use App\Employee;
use App\Family;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Http\Requests;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;

class FamiliesController extends Controller
{
    public function index(Employee $employee)
    {
        return view('families.index', compact('employee'));
    }

    public function create(Employee $employee)
    {
        return view('families.create', compact('employee'));
    }

}

Family.php (Model)

<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Family extends Model
{
    use SoftDeletes;

    protected $dates = ['deleted_at'];

      protected $primaryKey = 'FamilyID';

    public function employees()
    {
        return $this->belongsTo('App\Employee');
    }
}

Result from php artisan route:list

+--------+----------+------------------------------------------------+----------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+------------+
| Domain | Method   | URI                                            | Name                       | Action                                           | Middleware |
+--------+----------+------------------------------------------------+----------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+------------+
|        | GET|HEAD | employees                                      | employees.index            | App\Http\Controllers\EmployeesController@index   |            |
|        | POST     | employees                                      | employees.store            | App\Http\Controllers\EmployeesController@store   |            |
|        | GET|HEAD | employees/create                               | employees.create           | App\Http\Controllers\EmployeesController@create  |            |
|        | PATCH    | employees/{employees}                          |                            | App\Http\Controllers\EmployeesController@update  |            |
|        | PUT      | employees/{employees}                          | employees.update           | App\Http\Controllers\EmployeesController@update  |            |
|        | DELETE   | employees/{employees}                          | employees.destroy          | App\Http\Controllers\EmployeesController@destroy |            |
|        | GET|HEAD | employees/{employees}                          | employees.show             | App\Http\Controllers\EmployeesController@show    |            |
|        | GET|HEAD | employees/{employees}/edit                     | employees.edit             | App\Http\Controllers\EmployeesController@edit    |            |
|        | GET|HEAD | employees/{employees}/families                 | employees.families.index   | App\Http\Controllers\FamiliesController@index    |            |
|        | POST     | employees/{employees}/families                 | employees.families.store   | App\Http\Controllers\FamiliesController@store    |            |
|        | GET|HEAD | employees/{employees}/families/create          | employees.families.create  | App\Http\Controllers\FamiliesController@create   |            |
|        | PUT      | employees/{employees}/families/{families}      | employees.families.update  | App\Http\Controllers\FamiliesController@update   |            |
|        | DELETE   | employees/{employees}/families/{families}      | employees.families.destroy | App\Http\Controllers\FamiliesController@destroy  |            |
|        | GET|HEAD | employees/{employees}/families/{families}      | employees.families.show    | App\Http\Controllers\FamiliesController@show     |            |
|        | PATCH    | employees/{employees}/families/{families}      |                            | App\Http\Controllers\FamiliesController@update   |            |
|        | GET|HEAD | employees/{employees}/families/{families}/edit | employees.families.edit    | App\Http\Controllers\FamiliesController@edit     |            |
|        | GET|HEAD | employees/{id}/delete                          |                            | App\Http\Controllers\EmployeesController@delete  |            |
+--------+----------+------------------------------------------------+----------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+------------+

When i navigate to http://localhost/mysite/public/employees/1/families/create i can see the create form but it's not getting the employee data. i did a vardump of $employee on that page and i was expecting to see the data for EmployeeID = 1 (as you can see from the url), but it was blank. Funny thing is that it's not throwing an error, it receives the $employee data passed from the controller but it a blank data.

So what could be the problem?

via Chebli Mohamed