Child Custody and Co-Parenting
With the new Growing Together expansion, I was excited to see sleepovers and house guests as an option, but why can't we do it the other way around? My sims got a divorce, and the daughter stayed with her father, who remarried, as her mom works all the time and moved to an apartment in the city. My little girl sim can visit her mom, but gets in trouble for missing curfew, and can't even ask her mom if she can stay the night. I understand not allowing it for infants and toddlers as they cannot travel alone, but I was really hoping I could do a stay-over at her moms house, or even just ask to stay a night. Her mom has a room all set up for her and waiting, and I don't want to have to keep moving her daughter between houses as I only want her to stay every other weekend with her mom. Why hasn't EA put that in the expansion? We have lawyers, but can't do a custody hearing even with the Get To Work addon. It could be a simple thing to add in, as the scripts are there for teens and adults to ask to stay the night, so that part would be easy. An actual custody hearing could be a challenge to put in, but there are pc mods that do this. I play on console (it's where I've bought all and every expansions, I wasn't about to buy them for pc too!) and even just allowing children to stay with a member of family like a grandparent or aunt isn't allowed either. I love the immersion of the game, but this really cramps every storyline with co-parenting. I think EA should put it in game that children can stay a night or two with their family members!
