Or should adults with an unrelated baby, toddler, or child living in their home, have the option to adopt that sim, if their parents are no longer around, or the parents have exhibited deplorable child rearing methods?
There's a setting for this in the MC Command Center mod; you can have toddlers/children in inactive households moved to another household if the parents die or if there's been neglect. I'd love to have the option of adopting those children though, either in the regular adoption pool or some sort of special notification (for example if your Sims have a child that's friends with the child in question).
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Fun must be always -- Tomas Hertl (San Jose Sharks hockey player)
Yes to all of this. I have been wanting something similar to this since ts3 days.
Or (if an adult is the active sim) they can click on the infant, toddler, or child sim, and click on "adopt," or (if that particular child is the active sim), "ask to be adopted."
I've wanted this ever since I discovered they were actually removed! It would be great for story lines and it never made sense to me why they were just deleted and not put into the adoption pool. Often times I have other sims who would be happy to care for that child!
I would love the options for my sims family to adopt. I started out with a Scientist that got abducted & gave birth to twin Alien babies. So I got him to meet, fall-in-love & marry a lady. Unfortunately, she can only be good friends with her Husband's twins. I would love for her to be a Step-Mom/Adopted Mom for the twins.
Wait, it's not? so does the child gets removed from the game completely?
Yes, it is deleted from game. This is only one example of why some of us state TS4 is so shallow in depth and gameplay opportunities. In TS2 the child will be the next available child to adopt by a different family or Sim. And the previous parent will still sometimes come by and visit that child if they know that family. Of may just drop by, drop in. Simply deleting a Sim is one of the biggest shallow things I think the game does. It's as bad as a player just deleting the mom or dad and the other Sims in Ts4 not even remembering they ever had one.
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I don’t see why they can’t change it. If a team of modders can fix the adoption system, then EA can, and unlike with controllable pets, they can’t use the realism excuse this time.
Yes, yes, and yes. This is the main reason that pushed me into getting a mod to do so. It just seemed so unfair that the little pixels were deleted (or "whisked away" as the game puts it) because of events in the game. Limits one in telling stories.
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Yes, after the weird experience I had early on in Sims3. I lost the two children, a toddler and her infant brother to a glitch that hadn't at that time been addressed. The Dad sat on the floor to teach his toddler daughter had to talk and got stuck there. Mom finally got home from work, but she wasn't able to release the toddler, nor to feed her. She took care of the infant, however. But Dad was stuck to the floor! Long sad tale, shorter, both children were taken away. Odd, how the Social Worker could free the girl, when the mother was unable. Eventually, the heart-broken couple had more children. Sim-years later one of their sons brought home another Sim from school. Guess who it was?
Yes, the now older infant (he bore the very same name and a resemblance to the parents). I hunted and hunted and hunted for ages for the lost girl never to find her.
It would be great should such an unfortunate thing befall me again, to have both the (babies, really) be made available for others to adopt. They should show up in the roster at the very least.
It is actually possible to have adoptions/foster care in The Sims 2.
1. Let the parents die and the child to be left in the house all alone.
2. The social worker will come to take away the child.
3. The child will be the first in line in the adoption queue.
4. Have another family adopt the child. That child will be exactly the same child who lost his/her parents.
Fun Fact: Orphaned children in The Sims 2 can hang out as a Townie in the neighborhood.
It probably has to do with how it was originally coded, TS4 was supposed to be an online multiplayer game, they probably figured everybody would just play as young adults, socializing with each other, and never have families with kids, teens, or toddlers and added them as an afterthought once they decided to go single player and never thought about that scenario.
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Fun must be always -- Tomas Hertl (San Jose Sharks hockey player)
Yes. At least that's my understanding.
Or (if an adult is the active sim) they can click on the infant, toddler, or child sim, and click on "adopt," or (if that particular child is the active sim), "ask to be adopted."
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Yes, in the code it's actually listed as a type of death, though they don't turn to ghosts they are completely removed.
There's mods that do it, so it must be possible.
That's just sad from the sim parents perspective.
Seriously, they should consider implementing this, it made for great storylines in TS2.
Yes, it is deleted from game. This is only one example of why some of us state TS4 is so shallow in depth and gameplay opportunities. In TS2 the child will be the next available child to adopt by a different family or Sim. And the previous parent will still sometimes come by and visit that child if they know that family. Of may just drop by, drop in. Simply deleting a Sim is one of the biggest shallow things I think the game does. It's as bad as a player just deleting the mom or dad and the other Sims in Ts4 not even remembering they ever had one.
Yes, the now older infant (he bore the very same name and a resemblance to the parents). I hunted and hunted and hunted for ages for the lost girl never to find her.
It would be great should such an unfortunate thing befall me again, to have both the (babies, really) be made available for others to adopt. They should show up in the roster at the very least.
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1. Let the parents die and the child to be left in the house all alone.
2. The social worker will come to take away the child.
3. The child will be the first in line in the adoption queue.
4. Have another family adopt the child. That child will be exactly the same child who lost his/her parents.
Fun Fact: Orphaned children in The Sims 2 can hang out as a Townie in the neighborhood.