sims should have adopt a child wish

comicsforlife

its a small thing but I think it would really add to game play and story telling
if the sims could have that wish

MadameLee

I wish we could have open/closed adoptions that way the adoptee kid could still have some . contact with their birth moms

ashleynicole

Something I've always kind of wanted was adoption. Like if our family has a baby, toddler or child we could put them up for adoption. I have a cheat and my teen is pregnant and I don't want terminate it I'd really put the baby up for adoption but always thought people wouldn't approve that for the Sims.

Levronda

I feel like if a child gets taken from one home you should be able to have another family adopt it, so you still have your character just in a different home, Also Fostering should be an option under charity, and special needs children should have an game pack, with physical therapy and classrooms and different abilities. Idk might add some depth and challenge for those up to the task. If they added that as a game pack i feel like they should also add orphanages, where you can volunteer to read to the children and donate money and adopt, it all being done via computer feels more like a mail order bride than receiving a child.

FanPhoria

I'm always yearning for more/better whims, and this is the TOP of my "PLEASE GIVE IT TO ME" list.

comicsforlife

FanPhoria wrote: »

I'm always yearning for more/better whims, and this is the TOP of my "PLEASE GIVE IT TO ME" list.

when it comes to whims its on the top of my list too

MadameLee

ashleynicole wrote: »

Something I've always kind of wanted was adoption. Like if our family has a baby, toddler or child we could put them up for adoption. I have a cheat and my teen is pregnant and I don't want terminate it I'd really put the baby up for adoption but always thought people wouldn't approve that for the Sims.

@ashleynicole we can't really discuss tha part t here

EgonVM

In the Big Happy Family aspiration before Business and Athlete career update there was a goal to adopt a child. Now there's not.
Just an interesting fact...

comicsforlife

wow I wonder way they got rid of it @egonvm

EgonVM

comicsforlife wrote: »

wow I wonder way they got rid of it @egonvm

Maybe players prefer to have their sims have babies on their own...
I think there should be an aspiration that makes sims want to adopt a child and give them a new home.

comicsforlife

EgonVM wrote: »

comicsforlife wrote: »

wow I wonder way they got rid of it @egonvm

Maybe players prefer to have their sims have babies on their own...
I think there should be an aspiration that makes sims want to adopt a child and give them a new home.

me to that's a great idea @egonvm

Terra

It's the plummiest plum of plums that this whim isn't in the game. Sims 2 didn't discriminate - family Sims would roll this want all the time as well as Try for Baby.

comicsforlife

well I wish they'd bring it back then

comicsforlife

I'm still really hoping they will bring this back soon

crazycat_135

There's a lot of really weird things that have happened in updates over the years. For instance they took out some of the rocket and abduction visual effects. I think it's just a glitch, but it's still weird. I hope they bring back the adoption whim too.

Kuma_fruma

Agreed, Adding that would be great!

comicsforlife

now that they can wish to adopt cats and dogs it makes the absence of adopt a child wish is made even more noticeable

ChampandGirlie

On the subject of adoptions, I have done a more open adoption in my game through Manage Households. I had an aunt basically adopt a nephew because his birth mother was a criminal who had no interest in raising him. She still visits sometimes but he lives in a much happier house for a child sim.

The Parenthood GP made this easier with the ability to switch the caregiver. I'll admit that it's not the same as an auto-generated adoption wish but I do have several sims choose to adopt for various reasons. I mention that adoption because it was an open one. It just wasn't through the adoption agency.

I say in my game that there is an invisible court system that handles the filing of paperwork for adoptions, marriages, births, divorces, deaths, etc. That's all stuff that I manage "invisibly". I think that I even let the adoptive family get 1,000 simoleons to mimic a small payment for fostering their nephew through the court system. It was to mimic what is commonly seen in some real adoption cases.

I also kind of function as "Child Services" in my game, so if a household really seems like it is not a happy and stable enough environment for a child then I do an adoption. That's the only one where I've done that so far. The criminal sim only had the child because she was blackmailing a wealthy married sim in the town who did pay her off to keep the child's paternity a secret. She was a sim who started out as a criminal townie in the GTW police station that I made playable. One of the detectives married her sister (that I created in CAS) and they live a very conventional suburban life with several of their own kids. The open adoption made a lot of sense in the context of the game. The criminal still gets occasional visitation but then goes back to her criminal antics. The sister loves her nephew and he is treated well, so it all works.

There's probably going to be a plot about the adopted boy finding out who his real father was. I guess it's a little bit like the plot that some people had with the Landgraabs, but with my own characters. He won't start out in a trailer like Johnny Zest though.

comicsforlife

ChampandGirlie wrote: »

On the subject of adoptions, I have done a more open adoption in my game through Manage Households. I had an aunt basically adopt a nephew because his birth mother was a criminal who had no interest in raising him. She still visits sometimes but he lives in a much happier house for a child sim.

The Parenthood GP made this easier with the ability to switch the caregiver. I'll admit that it's not the same as an auto-generated adoption wish but I do have several sims choose to adopt for various reasons. I mention that adoption because it was an open one. It just wasn't through the adoption agency.

I say in my game that there is an invisible court system that handles the filing of paperwork for adoptions, marriages, births, divorces, deaths, etc. That's all stuff that I manage "invisibly". I think that I even let the adoptive family get 1,000 simoleons to mimic a small payment for fostering their nephew through the court system. It was to mimic what is commonly seen in some real adoption cases.

I also kind of function as "Child Services" in my game, so if a household really seems like it is not a happy and stable enough environment for a child then I do an adoption. That's the only one where I've done that so far. The criminal sim only had the child because she was blackmailing a wealthy married sim in the town who did pay her off to keep the child's paternity a secret. She was a sim who started out as a criminal townie in the GTW police station that I made playable. One of the detectives married her sister (that I created in CAS) and they live a very conventional suburban life with several of their own kids. The open adoption made a lot of sense in the context of the game. The criminal still gets occasional visitation but then goes back to her criminal antics. The sister loves her nephew and he is treated well, so it all works.

There's probably going to be a plot about the adopted boy finding out who his real father was. I guess it's a little bit like the plot that some people had with the Landgraabs, but with my own characters. He won't start out in a trailer like Johnny Zest though.

the thought that you put in to that is nice the adopt a child wish would be easy to add I really want to see it again it makes me feel like the sims
want to adopt the kids

MadameLee

comicsforlife wrote: »

ChampandGirlie wrote: »

On the subject of adoptions, I have done a more open adoption in my game through Manage Households. I had an aunt basically adopt a nephew because his birth mother was a criminal who had no interest in raising him. She still visits sometimes but he lives in a much happier house for a child sim.

The Parenthood GP made this easier with the ability to switch the caregiver. I'll admit that it's not the same as an auto-generated adoption wish but I do have several sims choose to adopt for various reasons. I mention that adoption because it was an open one. It just wasn't through the adoption agency.

I say in my game that there is an invisible court system that handles the filing of paperwork for adoptions, marriages, births, divorces, deaths, etc. That's all stuff that I manage "invisibly". I think that I even let the adoptive family get 1,000 simoleons to mimic a small payment for fostering their nephew through the court system. It was to mimic what is commonly seen in some real adoption cases.

I also kind of function as "Child Services" in my game, so if a household really seems like it is not a happy and stable enough environment for a child then I do an adoption. That's the only one where I've done that so far. The criminal sim only had the child because she was blackmailing a wealthy married sim in the town who did pay her off to keep the child's paternity a secret. She was a sim who started out as a criminal townie in the GTW police station that I made playable. One of the detectives married her sister (that I created in CAS) and they live a very conventional suburban life with several of their own kids. The open adoption made a lot of sense in the context of the game. The criminal still gets occasional visitation but then goes back to her criminal antics. The sister loves her nephew and he is treated well, so it all works.

There's probably going to be a plot about the adopted boy finding out who his real father was. I guess it's a little bit like the plot that some people had with the Landgraabs, but with my own characters. He won't start out in a trailer like Johnny Zest though.

the thought that you put in to that is nice the adopt a child wish would be easy to add I really want to see it again it makes me feel like the sims
want to adopt the kids

I used the manage world for story purposes in my own story- Juliet had to give up one of her daughters due to a one-child poilcy and Selene went to her distant Grant cousin Raven but after her and her Raven's toddler birthdays Raven died and after the husband (also a distant cousin) remarried he died as well. Leaving Selene and her cousin Sara Wendy (Raven's child) as wards of Sara Wendy's step-mother

FanPhoria

This. I use whims a lot, I know many people don't, but it's a big part of my game. I don't usually havemy sims make big life changes till I see the whim pop up, but I have to REALLY be concious and remember there's no adoption whim, cause otherwise I'll never do it. I LOVE adoption stories, and I've done a few of them, but the lack of whim definitely means I forget about it sometimes since I tend to have a very loose, go with what the sims "want" gaming style. Honestly, as someone who LIKES whims, they could really use improvement and refinement and overhaulling in general--this is just one example. I think there was a thread about that somewhere, I'll try and find it and give it boost, lol

comicsforlife

I agree that's why I want the whim to

fruitsbasket101

Yes! I made a thread about this awhile back. It's just weird to me that they get the wish to adopt a pet but not a child. Especially those sims who can't have, but still want children.