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    Adopting children

    TheBristolSimmerTheBristolSimmer Posts: 705 Member
    in The Sims 4 General Discussion
    Hi!

    I've not had time/never remember to test while in-game!

    I was wondering - Say a child is taken by the social worker in one household, can the next household find that same child under the adoption service? Was wondering if said child is saved to the adoption option or if it's wiped from the game?

    Thanks! :)
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      luthienrisingluthienrising Posts: 37,629 Member
      No, children who are taken are basically just gone. :(
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      TheBristolSimmerTheBristolSimmer Posts: 705 Member
      That's a shame! Would have been great for other family members to then adopt the child! Maybe that should be a new feature they should add! Thanks for the reply @luthienrising :)
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      DoloresGreyDoloresGrey Posts: 3,490 Member
      TheBristolSimmer wrote: »
      That's a shame! Would have been great for other family members to then adopt the child! Maybe that should be a new feature they should add! Thanks for the reply @luthienrising :)

      the thing is that you could simply add the child back to a family he/she was taken from through the manage world
      -probably just playing Phasmophobia :p
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      TheBristolSimmerTheBristolSimmer Posts: 705 Member
      DoloresGrey wrote: »
      TheBristolSimmer wrote: »
      That's a shame! Would have been great for other family members to then adopt the child! Maybe that should be a new feature they should add! Thanks for the reply @luthienrising :)

      the thing is that you could simply add the child back to a family he/she was taken from through the manage world

      ?

      Do you mean just add an earlier save version of the child?

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      DoloresGreyDoloresGrey Posts: 3,490 Member
      TheBristolSimmer wrote: »
      DoloresGrey wrote: »
      TheBristolSimmer wrote: »
      That's a shame! Would have been great for other family members to then adopt the child! Maybe that should be a new feature they should add! Thanks for the reply @luthienrising :)

      the thing is that you could simply add the child back to a family he/she was taken from through the manage world

      ?

      Do you mean just add an earlier save version of the child?

      sorry i meant manage households
      -probably just playing Phasmophobia :p
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      luthienrisingluthienrising Posts: 37,629 Member
      DoloresGrey wrote: »
      TheBristolSimmer wrote: »
      DoloresGrey wrote: »
      TheBristolSimmer wrote: »
      That's a shame! Would have been great for other family members to then adopt the child! Maybe that should be a new feature they should add! Thanks for the reply @luthienrising :)

      the thing is that you could simply add the child back to a family he/she was taken from through the manage world

      ?

      Do you mean just add an earlier save version of the child?

      sorry i meant manage households

      Once a Sim's been taken by the social worker, they aren't accessible there anymore.
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      DoloresGreyDoloresGrey Posts: 3,490 Member
      luthienrising wrote: »
      DoloresGrey wrote: »
      TheBristolSimmer wrote: »
      DoloresGrey wrote: »
      TheBristolSimmer wrote: »
      That's a shame! Would have been great for other family members to then adopt the child! Maybe that should be a new feature they should add! Thanks for the reply @luthienrising :)

      the thing is that you could simply add the child back to a family he/she was taken from through the manage world

      ?

      Do you mean just add an earlier save version of the child?

      sorry i meant manage households

      Once a Sim's been taken by the social worker, they aren't accessible there anymore.

      i know that. but if another sim family could adop a child who has been taken from them then you could put the child back to the original family through manage households.
      -probably just playing Phasmophobia :p
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      luthienrisingluthienrising Posts: 37,629 Member
      DoloresGrey wrote: »
      luthienrising wrote: »
      DoloresGrey wrote: »
      TheBristolSimmer wrote: »
      DoloresGrey wrote: »
      TheBristolSimmer wrote: »
      That's a shame! Would have been great for other family members to then adopt the child! Maybe that should be a new feature they should add! Thanks for the reply @luthienrising :)

      the thing is that you could simply add the child back to a family he/she was taken from through the manage world

      ?

      Do you mean just add an earlier save version of the child?

      sorry i meant manage households

      Once a Sim's been taken by the social worker, they aren't accessible there anymore.

      i know that. but if another sim family could adop a child who has been taken from them then you could put the child back to the original family through manage households.

      The child who was taken by the social worker won't show up in the adoption options. Adoption options are new-generated Sims only.
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      TheBristolSimmerTheBristolSimmer Posts: 705 Member
      luthienrising wrote: »
      DoloresGrey wrote: »
      luthienrising wrote: »
      DoloresGrey wrote: »
      TheBristolSimmer wrote: »
      DoloresGrey wrote: »
      TheBristolSimmer wrote: »
      That's a shame! Would have been great for other family members to then adopt the child! Maybe that should be a new feature they should add! Thanks for the reply @luthienrising :)

      the thing is that you could simply add the child back to a family he/she was taken from through the manage world

      ?

      Do you mean just add an earlier save version of the child?

      sorry i meant manage households

      Once a Sim's been taken by the social worker, they aren't accessible there anymore.

      i know that. but if another sim family could adop a child who has been taken from them then you could put the child back to the original family through manage households.

      The child who was taken by the social worker won't show up in the adoption options. Adoption options are new-generated Sims only.

      Thanks for clarifying!
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      DoloresGreyDoloresGrey Posts: 3,490 Member
      edited May 2017
      luthienrising wrote: »
      DoloresGrey wrote: »
      luthienrising wrote: »
      DoloresGrey wrote: »
      TheBristolSimmer wrote: »
      DoloresGrey wrote: »
      TheBristolSimmer wrote: »
      That's a shame! Would have been great for other family members to then adopt the child! Maybe that should be a new feature they should add! Thanks for the reply @luthienrising :)

      the thing is that you could simply add the child back to a family he/she was taken from through the manage world

      ?

      Do you mean just add an earlier save version of the child?

      sorry i meant manage households

      Once a Sim's been taken by the social worker, they aren't accessible there anymore.

      i know that. but if another sim family could adop a child who has been taken from them then you could put the child back to the original family through manage households.

      The child who was taken by the social worker won't show up in the adoption options. Adoption options are new-generated Sims only.

      i know this. what i was talking about is that if a DIFFERENT family COULD adopt a child who was taken by a social worker, then you could put the taken child back to ORIGINAL family through manage household. that is why even next household can't adopt taken children -> so simmers could use it on purpose
      -probably just playing Phasmophobia :p
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      Mariefoxprice83Mariefoxprice83 Posts: 8,112 Member
      And yet in Sims 2, children taken by the social worker were the first to be given to new families seeking to adopt.
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      lmusiclmusic Posts: 288 Member
      It's a shame, if a Sim is near death with a youngster I usually move them in with another family to stop them being taken. Or age up one of them.
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      DoloresGreyDoloresGrey Posts: 3,490 Member
      lmusic wrote: »
      It's a shame, if a Sim is near death with a youngster I usually move them in with another family to stop them being taken. Or age up one of them.

      I believe the elders can't die till children become teens but I am not sure about that. Never tried it.
      -probably just playing Phasmophobia :p
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      luthienrisingluthienrising Posts: 37,629 Member
      DoloresGrey wrote: »
      lmusic wrote: »
      It's a shame, if a Sim is near death with a youngster I usually move them in with another family to stop them being taken. Or age up one of them.

      I believe the elders can't die till children become teens but I am not sure about that. Never tried it.

      They can. And the children disappear :/ The one time I was running near that I moved another Sim in to be guardian.
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      DoloresGreyDoloresGrey Posts: 3,490 Member
      edited May 2017
      luthienrising wrote: »
      DoloresGrey wrote: »
      lmusic wrote: »
      It's a shame, if a Sim is near death with a youngster I usually move them in with another family to stop them being taken. Or age up one of them.

      I believe the elders can't die till children become teens but I am not sure about that. Never tried it.

      They can. And the children disappear :/ The one time I was running near that I moved another Sim in to be guardian.

      Oh no don't tell me this. I have just put an orphan to childless elders :( Now this is shame.
      -probably just playing Phasmophobia :p
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      LadyMcCrackenLadyMcCracken Posts: 31 Member
      That would be really neat to see... it's a shame they basically get deleted :(
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