Do you give your Sim children plastic surgery if they don't look pretty enough for you?

yes, not because i need them all to be cute but rather i need them to look like their parents and sometimes they will come out chinless even though their parents have perfectly fine chins, or with puny noses even though most of my sims have big noses. ??‍♀️

Depends what you mean by plastic surgery. I have changed the eye colour and hair styles and possible minor features such as eye brows at most. However this is only for the sims that have descended from my simself in my main save. Other sims I don’t mind changing as they are background sims.

I generally never mess with kid Sims' looks because it would ruin the surprise of how they'll grow up, and I want to see what their teen and adult selves will look like without my meddling. However, I voted "other" because there is one thing I will change that isn't looks, but it drives me bonkers when it happens: There is a certain voice that sometimes happens in kid sims, that I cannot S T A N D hearing. It makes me want to crawl out of my own skin. It's this extremely sassy, unpleasant voice and the kids affected talk in it all the time, not just when being sassy or teasing or whatnot. I couldn't be around a kid who sounded snide and jeering every second of every day.

So I change that if it happens, to alleviate the growing urge to end them.

About looks though, I had a Sim whose looks were negatively affected because he bore a genetic resemblance to his Reaper father that played out weirdly: he seemed to have inherited the coloration his dad must have had for whatever he would have been if he hadn't been a reaper (because the kid was light-skinned and ginger-haired, definitely didn't get that from the Goth side), but he got the strange, stylized face all Reapers have under their hoods if you change their clothes in CAS. So he grew up with the over-large, round eyes, delicate rounded features...kind of a baby-face with too-large eyes effect. It was strange, and impressive, and different. But not what anyone could call attractive. But I left it, because it reflected his unique heritage, and anyone can be stereotypically attractive, but not just anyone can be a Reaper/Normal Sim hybrid offspring.

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I usually wait until they are teens to see if they grow into normal looking features.

I play sims to escape reality. So I figured they mind as well all be cute. *shrugs*?

I usually only do small edits on my Sims children, generally when it's a feature that bothers me. Sometimes Sim kids just look awkward and grow up to be pretty, so I don't edit them a lot.

I like variety in my game, and I find the DNA mixing to be one of the most exciting things in the game. When a new sim is born I'm in awe, constantly searching to learn that sim's personality, and sometimes the looks help... Even if only 1 out of 10 sims turn out quite nice looking, the joy is more than 10 times bigger than if I should adjust them all :)

I generally don't for born-in-game sims, so far. For premade children/toddlers I absolutely do if they have weird features.

And I made a genetic daughter for Brent and Brant in CAS and made the mistake of making her as a child without checking her teen outcome... when she aged up she had a very masculine face so I edited that real quick! That's what happens with no female genes in the mix I guess.

I wasn't really sure what option to pick but I always give them CC skin overlays like all my other sims. Sometimes I edit small things that bother me but I usually wait until they're young adults since their faces can change a lot sometimes.