Icloud contact delemia

I signed my family up for the icloud share, this is what we have i have a ipad and a 4s iphone, my wife has a new ipone 6, my daughter has a ipad mini, and my son has my old 1st gen ipad. everyone has there own apple id's with me being the organizer. the problem we have is with the contacts, i have totally erased the contacts off of my wife and kids devices, and everytime i turn on icloud contacts it uploads them to their devices, but it isnt the EXACT same list as what is on my mac/cloud. the cloud puts the exact correct list on MY ipad and phone, but not theirs. i have gone through the apple trouble shooting list many times, but still cant figure it out. any ideas??

If they have separate iCloud accounts, the contacts that sync to their devices would be whatever contacts are in their accounts, not yours. (Family sharing doesn't share contacts.) If they each go to iCloud.com, sign into their individual accounts and check contacts, the list on iCloud.com would be the one they see on their device(s) when they turn contacts on in Settings>iCloud.
If you want to replace the contact list in their accounts with yours I can explain how to do this.

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Nuts isn't it. This seems to have been an issue snce dAY 1. iT FROSTS ME THAT THERE IS NO SIMPLE QUICK WAY TO UPDATE OR CORRECT the data in both programs simultaneously.. Thats why i decided to just put everytning into the i cloud address brook, and let the one other sit and rot.
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