Family Aspiration

Yes, I agree! I wish 'adopt as care dependent' worked for the family aspirations (if it doesn't already? I haven't tested this out yet). I would also like some family aspirations that don't require child sims to age up to adults for those of us that play with ageing off or have child ghosts.

Even for those who play with aging on, the family aspiration has hardly any chance of being fulfilled. By the time all of the kids have grown up to adults, the parents are already dead in this game unless they have the longevity trait. I feel the adult life stage is just too short.

@Rouenpucelle Hmm, that's weird. I have a story in one of my saves very similar to your own: older brother looking after younger sister on their own in an apartment in San Myshuno - he has become her care dependent. He has the 'Successful Lineage' aspiration and as you can see from the screenshot, it's working, i.e. the game is recognising his sister as his 'child' and is fulfilling the requirements of the aspiration. Here's the shot - the girl is his younger sister:

You don't mention which aspiration you're doing, but it seems like this could be a bug? Long shot, but have you tried repairing your game? Or do you have any mods that might be conflicting? If not, might be worth setting up a bug report over at AHQ?

Just so happens i created a family a few days ago and it is a bit of a mess, all of it because a husband cheated on his wife, neither of them willing to be the one to give in and take the hit on raising their children after a divorce settlement, the whole thing blew up in such a spectacular fashion that the teenaged daughter took her toddler brother and raised him by herself, even going as far to cancel school so she can look after the boy full time. The boy is clingy and prefers to be with his sister at all times. I was in the middle of playing that run out, the boy already has level 5 on everything except potty which is at level 3.

It would be nice if the aspirations take into account the care dependency option since those indidivual sims looking after those toddlers are in effect like a parent anyway, and just because it isn't written down anywhere officially, don't make it any less true.

"Sindocat;c-17266949" wrote:
It would be nice if the "Adopt as Care Dependent" / or "Adopt as Caregiver" interactions (which I think are from Parenthood GP - I have never raised families without it) would allow exactly that. I have some similar set-ups of non-traditional family.

i have that option and don't have the Parental GP, but i'd like to get it if it came on sale.

@loubyloulou Honestly I hadn't tried it because this particular Sim didn't want children of his own at this time. Good to know it works like that! Thank you!

But there are other family relationships too. Like I have a family of siblings about the same age. Their aspiration in my mind is to stay together and be close and take care of each other. None of them really want to be a "parent" to the others.

I guess I really just want more aspirations in general. :)

For some reason, I can't find many good aspiration mods, even though there are lots of great mods for careers and traits.

maybe the vampire family aspiration is near you want

@Hoverael OMG your game sounds so dramatic - Probably makes for some good stories! Is the divorce settlement option part of a game pack or a mod?

"DanceSingLoveLive;c-17269960" wrote:
@Hoverael OMG your game sounds so dramatic - Probably makes for some good stories! Is the divorce settlement option part of a game pack or a mod?

it is in MCCC if you want to use it. i use MC to create a storyline background as it just has more features than vanilla does and it comes with the ability to divorce under the relationships options when you select the sim your sim is married to, you can set it up pretty handily after you put the families down and simply get the relationships sorted out in MCCC.

all depends on you if you wish to use it though. :smile: