Why are my contacts disappearing?

I have two iPhones and an ipad, everything is up to date.. I originally had an iPhone 3GS and an iPad2. I got an iPhone 4s and did a factory restore on the 3GS and gave it to my daughter.. All of the devices are on the same iCloud account with the contacts syncing option off.. My problem is that I was writing an address down one morning from my contacts in my iPad when all of the sudden the contact disappeared! In fact all of my contacts disappeared and were replaced with my daughters. I checked on my 4s and the same thing had happened, all my contacts were gone and replaced with my daughters.. I did a restore on my 4s yesterday and got my contacts back only to look today and they were gone again.. *** over?

well make sure the contacts are turned off for the phone you gave your daughter in icloud because when she deletes a contact from there, they delete from the rest of the devices, make her her own apple id just for icloud to prevent this issue

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