Last week I was laying down the steps for my Bratz Babyz. As someone who often falls down rabbit holes of informal, I decided to make the (as accurate as I could make them) families of the 4 main Bratz girls that I would be doing as Babyz.

tl/dr I tried to adopt the niece and nephew of one of the uncles in the extended family of a character; they didn't have parents. And the option never came up, so I had to make parents for them. If you know how to do it, please help.

(Side note upon further research Bratz Babyz are described as babies but walk around like toddlers so I will probably end up doing more in their toddler forms than their infant forms, and then continuing to age them up.)

But when I got started on Chloe's (Cloe?) family I was immediately faced with some dilemmas. Beyond the fact that several members of her family had no picture description, and at least one uncle was described as either her mother or her father's biological brother. She had 2 cousins who's parents weren't mentioned at all. (Also very few people have last names in this universe 🙄) But they were described as being the niece and nephew of this uncle who is either mom or dad's brother.

At first I just added them in as toddlers, no parents. Because I didn't know who their parents were. I hadn't even made the main character or her siblings yet. I had decided to start from the beginning for once, so all family relationships would be automatically set in game. Though I had to cheat add the niece and nephew relationships to the two brothers.

But that led to another problem. Originally Uncle Marco was gonna raise the two cousins. All these extra family members were really just extra townies that I put in so that my new save has some cool Bratz in them, and they have their families. Growing Together made me soft. But then he couldnt adopt his niece or nephew. Not even before they were cheated to be so. They literally had no parents and only could be care dependents. The actual adopt option never came up.

So then I had to go back into CAS, after splitting the household a bit, and make their parents, and make sure these parents were the siblings of the two brothers.

Which is probably more accurate anyway. But it was A Lot of extra work when you were just adding in the background characters in the first place.

So how on earth do you adopt family members without all the effort? Or non family members? They were good friends, had good family dynamics, and were literally related. And the toddlers had no parents to care for them. They do now bc nothing worked, but I was going to ease and accuracy.