adoption
There's been some talk about adoption options. I know we can do this pretend through CAS and manage worlds. but wouldn't it be great if we could put our child up for adoption. say our sim got in the ...
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"luthienrising;15645585" wrote:"MadameLee;15645533" wrote:
as much as I love this idea..there are people who will hated it..
It would be optional though. And useful for storytelling* for those who *do* want the option.
Right now we have a limitation in adoption though that the game doesn't have adoptive *and* birth parents both recognized, so I'm not really sure that, apart from random allocation to a household (maybe?), there'd be an advantage to this in-game. You'd lose your relationship as things currently are. I'd like to see adoptive and birth parents, though, then there could be lots of great new storytelling around both directions of adoption.
*By which I mean stuff we do while we play, just making stories happen, not posting words and screenshots online, which can be done no matter what the underlying game mechanic is.
I know what you mean..in my Swanson Story Selene's Cousins 3x removed Raven (Selene's great-great grandpa is the brother to Raven's great-grandma) and was Selene's guardian until she died and Raven's husband (who is a 5th cousin removed to Selene himself) will be dying soon himself but he has remarried) but Raven only "adopted" Selene do to the fact that Selene's birth family can't take her for a plot-related reason
