Parents Are Sharing The Secrets They Found Out That Their Kids Had Kept From Them, And Some Of These Are Really Dark

We asked the BuzzFeed Community* to tell us secrets they’ve discovered their kids have kept from them, and some of the answers were shocking. Here’s what they had to say.

*We also sourced answers from theseReddit threads.

1. “My daughter is 15 and is already very sexually active. We took her to the hospital, and we found out she had genital herpes. She said she probably got it from dirty toilet paper from her camping trip that happened last month. I didn’t believe in that, but I told her I did. So, a few days ago, I took her phone (she was in detention for something else).… I read some of her messages between her and some friend. They were talking about body counts. I didn’t know what that meant, so I googled it. So, my daughter slept with seven scrampy boys and got HERPES from one of them.”

—u/missing7yrs

2. “One year, my husband and I were having a really hard time getting up in time for work for, like, two months straight. Years later, we found out our daughter was drugging us so she could sneak out. Either of us could have died, and she thinks it’s funny she used to do that. Needless to say, she no longer lives with us and will not be allowed back if ever she falls on hard times.”

—Anonymous

3. ”[My daughter’s secret is] the absolutely atrocious way her father and stepmother treat her. Small stories come to surface, but she’s sworn to secrecy, and I can’t actually prove anything. She’s 11 and asks about very specific mental conditions she’s ‘heard of in movies.’ She overeats constantly and sleeps with all her lights on here… If you think I haven’t tried everything in my power to protect her, you underestimate how good some people are at putting the fear of God in their children when it comes to hiding the fact that