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    SHOCKING! Sims 4 Single Moms (adoption?!)

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    sarahewhysarahewhy Posts: 131 Member
    in The Sims 4 General Discussion
    I want to bring your attention to this. The babies and kids up for adoption in my game are all the same kids from the single mom townies my game generates. Why are all these single moms giving up their kids for adoption?! Is this intentional in the design of the game? Is this why so many single mom households are generated? See photos (I apologize for the image quality).

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    • ShearsyShearsy Posts: 727 Member
      That is weird... maybe they're all bad parents because there's no story progression so the children aren't doing their homework and they're going to get kicked out of school or sent to the military school.

      Btw, does anyone know what actually happens to the kids in this if they do poorly at school?
    • Bettyboop55Bettyboop55 Posts: 2,646 Member
      My first cheeky answer would be "because they are programmed that way" :)

      However it does seem rather odd and putting the game out of balance. I would have thought a company which makes games with same gender marriages would realise that single mums keep their children these days :)

      A nice piece of detective work :)
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    • windweaverwindweaver Posts: 7,375 Member
      I'm not getting what your shocked about? I think it's cool they tried to come up with a back story of sorts. So what's the big deal?
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    • JuanaJuana Posts: 840 Member
      edited November 2014
      Shearsy wrote: »
      Btw, does anyone know what actually happens to the kids in this if they do poorly at school?
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    • sarahewhysarahewhy Posts: 131 Member
      @windweaver SHOCKING! Because I needed a sensational headline ;)
      http://sarahewhy.tumblr.com/
    • JoenielJoeniel Posts: 727 Member
      If those npc's have not even a house to live, how can they support a family? The best solution is giving away their kids for the fist simmer with house interested to adopt. So our streets are showrooms of children available for adoption. I mean, they walks all day around in our neighborhoods.
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    • sarahewhysarahewhy Posts: 131 Member
      Maybe the single moms are just temporary foster parents and that's why their kids don't look like them.
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    • JuanaJuana Posts: 840 Member
      I mean, homeless people do get their kids taken away if they can't provide a home for them...
      A lil too realistic, EA? That's kinda sad, lol.
    • JoenielJoeniel Posts: 727 Member
      Juana wrote: »
      I mean, homeless people do get their kids taken away if they can't provide a home for them...
      A lil too realistic, EA? That's kinda sad, lol.

      Real life is sad enough.
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    • feetinstockingsfeetinstockings Posts: 4,264 Member
      This is shocking, and I do think the kids look like their mums. I notice there not the kids from a mum and dad. are there any kids in the married homeless couples?? I like to play these single mums, I usually make a hostel for them and group them up together, So they can raise their children. I suppose the game makes more single parents. mmmmm will have to test this out.
    • JoenielJoeniel Posts: 727 Member
      feetinstockings wrote: »
      This is shocking, and I do think the kids look like their mums. I notice there not the kids from a mum and dad. are there any kids in the married homeless couples?? I like to play these single mums, I usually make a hostel for them and group them up together, So they can raise their children. I suppose the game makes more single parents. mmmmm will have to test this out.

      Those kids you describes are like their mums cause there are no dads to share the genetics for the child. Same happened in TS3 Ambitions EP when you used the time machine to travel either to future or past and returns with a son/daughter will have only the genetics of the sim you're playing with. The spouse has nothing to do there. A cheater traveling in time? ...pretty awesome.

      And by the way, I already have a single mom and her rebel teenager in my gallery. :D
      ID: Allyden if interested. Just gave them a home and winter is coming through!
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    • ManicRoseManicRose Posts: 107 Member
      Does anyone know what happens if, for example, there is a townie household of an adult female and a child and then the adult is asked to move in with one of the sims you are playing? Do you get the option to bring their child too or not? Or does just the adult move in and the child disappears from the townie pool?
    • JuanaJuana Posts: 840 Member
      ManicRose wrote: »
      Does anyone know what happens if, for example, there is a townie household of an adult female and a child and then the adult is asked to move in with one of the sims you are playing? Do you get the option to bring their child too or not? Or does just the adult move in and the child disappears from the townie pool?
      You get the option to bring anyone from the household, so yes - you can choose to bring the kid too.
    • pattypatty Posts: 52 Member
      I am playing a single mom and got a message "the baby is very hungry, and if she does not get feed soon she will be taken away". That could be one reason the child would be up for adoption. I did feed her!
    • ManicRoseManicRose Posts: 107 Member
      Juana wrote: »
      ManicRose wrote: »
      Does anyone know what happens if, for example, there is a townie household of an adult female and a child and then the adult is asked to move in with one of the sims you are playing? Do you get the option to bring their child too or not? Or does just the adult move in and the child disappears from the townie pool?
      You get the option to bring anyone from the household, so yes - you can choose to bring the kid too.
      What happens if you chose not to bring the child? Do they just disappear from the game?
    • feetinstockingsfeetinstockings Posts: 4,264 Member
      ManicRose wrote: »
      Juana wrote: »
      ManicRose wrote: »
      Does anyone know what happens if, for example, there is a townie household of an adult female and a child and then the adult is asked to move in with one of the sims you are playing? Do you get the option to bring their child too or not? Or does just the adult move in and the child disappears from the townie pool?
      You get the option to bring anyone from the household, so yes - you can choose to bring the kid too.
      What happens if you chose not to bring the child? Do they just disappear from the game?

      I have no idea, maybe some else does, you could always play and find out, it would make an interesting game play. interesting story.
    • SpradaciSprojSpradaciSproj Posts: 1,272 Member
      Do they disappear from the Not in World menu if you adopt them?
    • RomireRomire Posts: 2,418 Member
      Well this is the strangest occurst to ever happen
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    • FairyGodMotherFairyGodMother Posts: 7,406 Member
      I never would have noticed that :o

      Very interesting!
    • JoenielJoeniel Posts: 727 Member
      SpradaciSproj wrote: »
      Do they disappear from the Not in World menu if you adopt them?

      Its a good reason to try out. Or perhaps now with that child adopted you'll find mom at the bar drinking and dancing, liberated of all duties.
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    • KShannonKShannon Posts: 223 Member
      ManicRose wrote: »
      Juana wrote: »
      ManicRose wrote: »
      Does anyone know what happens if, for example, there is a townie household of an adult female and a child and then the adult is asked to move in with one of the sims you are playing? Do you get the option to bring their child too or not? Or does just the adult move in and the child disappears from the townie pool?
      You get the option to bring anyone from the household, so yes - you can choose to bring the kid too.
      What happens if you chose not to bring the child? Do they just disappear from the game?
      You can't choose not to bring them. There has to be an adult for each household.

      Found this out the hard way when my sim married a woman with two kids I had no idea she had.
    • friendlysimmersfriendlysimmers Posts: 7,545 Member
      me i do not see anything wrong with this picture
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    • KhyanLeikasKhyanLeikas Posts: 857 Member
      edited November 2014
      It' a rushed game. That's why.

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      Seriously, it's not really a problem. The first time we can see parents who abandon their children in The Sims!
    • SophieDiddleSophieDiddle Posts: 578 Member
      edited November 2014
      How did you even notice this? Very interesting.
      It's like I can stalk the hood like a creeper picking out the child I want....... 0.0
    • ManicRoseManicRose Posts: 107 Member
      KShannon wrote: »
      ManicRose wrote: »
      Juana wrote: »
      ManicRose wrote: »
      Does anyone know what happens if, for example, there is a townie household of an adult female and a child and then the adult is asked to move in with one of the sims you are playing? Do you get the option to bring their child too or not? Or does just the adult move in and the child disappears from the townie pool?
      You get the option to bring anyone from the household, so yes - you can choose to bring the kid too.
      What happens if you chose not to bring the child? Do they just disappear from the game?
      You can't choose not to bring them. There has to be an adult for each household.

      Found this out the hard way when my sim married a woman with two kids I had no idea she had.
      Doh! Wonder what will happen if they do ever bring back family trees. Will those two kids just show as having no dad or will it have assigned some random male townie as the father?
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