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Just had this same issue, if you found anything out on it, please let me know! Ruined my whole story 😅
I have some suspicions to the cause, I have attempted for the 2 sims [or in this case a different female sim] to make the relationship a 'woohoo partner' relationship BEFORE trying for babies/progressing romance too much-and as far as i can tell the game is reading the kids as secret children.
My suspicion is that the game for whatever reason, values the sims in a 'romantic situation' available for official romance as well as woohoo leading to the secret children not actually being listed as such, without pre-emptively limiting the relationship itself as 'woohoo' only.
If this is the case, the 'secret lover' option does not limit the relationship status the way woohoo partners option does 🙃 regardless if the two secret lovers have official partners or not. I'll continue using the 'ask to be woohoo partners' instead of 'secret lover' OR just before doing such.
Let me know if you notice the same!