Foster kids?

Yeah, that would be cool. I've done the same thing a few times with young relatives of my sims who are either in a full household or have dead/dying parents. It could be like the "adopt as care dependent" option but the kid is actually transferred to your household as well.

With the Parenting EP you could kind of do this, by not setting the relationships in CAS but using the Parenthood option.

It would be nice if there were *any* adoption-type options outside of the computer's "adopt" interaction.
Why doesn't the sim who treats her husband's alien child as her own get to be counted as the mother? She didn't carry the kid, but he didn't carry any of the other kids, and the alien isn't genetically related to either of them. You could cheat in the relationship, but you can cheat in any relationship.

"luthienrising;c-16469841" wrote:
With the Parenting EP you could kind of do this, by not setting the relationships in CAS but using the Parenthood option.

I have Parenthood, which brings the "Adopt as Care Dependent" option - I use that for grandparents/older siblings quite frequently.

"takenbysheep;c-16469543" wrote:
Yeah, that would be cool. I've done the same thing a few times with young relatives of my sims who are either in a full household or have dead/dying parents. It could be like the "adopt as care dependent" option but the kid is actually transferred to your household as well.

Agreed, it would be cool if they could be transferred to the active household when that option is selected.

YES! This would be a perfect addition. In Sims 3 I had a gay couple that adopted all their kids and fostered a few others. The fostering was unofficial of course as I just added them into the household manually; a kid and at least 2 teens into the household. All in all it was 3 adopted children and if my memory serves me right, they fostered 4 kids over their lifetime. The last one became a YA just before they died.

I'd love to have this as an official option in the game where homeless teens can be fostered. I have at least 2 homeless game generated households that has only 1 teen each. I did have a third one whom I actually merge into another homeless household that contained one adult woman. Being able to have Sims foster kids from other households would be great. For instance, via the telephone or even by requesting a Sim in person to foster their kids for good or at a set amount of time.

I have recreated my Sims 3 gay couple in Sims 4. Well sorta. They don't have the same name, look, traits or the same ethnicity even but I like them anyway :smiley: They have already adopted a child and a toddler and will adopt again, either another toddler or a baby or even both. When the youngest grows up to a child their fostering will start and I think I will start with the homeless teens my game has generated.

But anyway. Yeah, fostering would be cool.

I did this in a family where the mom had both the insane and hates children trait. Her brother who lived in the same household also hated children. (I didn't choose the traits for them, they were born in game and got random traits because I wasn't playing the family when they had their birthdays.) I decided the kids would be better off in a loving family so I manually transferred them to a different household.

I move babies, toddlers, etc. Into households too to simulate foster care in my game. There is a mod, by the way, I haven't ever used it myself but in case anyone is interested

https://littlemssam.tumblr.com/post/176877110693/foster-family-become-a-part-of-the-lms-foster/amp

I have a foster family I love to play. I move all my orphans or kids in less than ideal homes in with them. If you have parenthood and do the adopt as care dependent option, they will behave as the parents. I especially love the fact that when the kids grow up they will recognize their caregiver as a parent and family member. They wont show up in the family tree of course. My couple adopted the Villareal children. They all show up on holidays and visit regularly.

> @CheesySimsLover said:
> We all know about adopting kids, but have you ever had your sims foster a kid? As in, moving in a child whose parents are about to die before they can get swooped up by the poorly developed child services in The Sims 4 (or placed randomly into a household if you have MCCC like I do).
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> I ended up doing this in my current generation. Shortly after my sim, Braylon, married his wife, Kiana, I noticed that she had a toddler brother, Loren, and that her dad had died, which meant her mom would soon be passing too. I felt bad for Loren being all alone, so I transferred him into my current sims' household, and figured I'd move him out when he was a teenager.
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> Loren is now a child, and surprisingly, I've become somewhat attached to the kid. The attachment grew after his reaction to his "foster" grandfather's death. He was devastated; I figure because he'd already lost two parents. He's also a kleptomaniac, which makes things even more interesting. He also fits in great with the other kids. Here's a photo of him and his foster brother (also his step-nephew), Christopher, playing basketball.
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> It would be cool if Sims had an actual "foster care" option.

@CheesySimsLover , I too think it would be neat for their to be a better Child Care type of system!

Especially for the Child Services in situations like when a toddler keeps glitching or simply won't do what they need to boost their needs and not get taken away by TS4 Child Services! I remember one time when I got particularly frustrated because in one of my households a toddler really needed help with several needs at a time and her dad tried to help, but things just kept colliding and I didn't want to use cheats. Unfortunately, the toddler was eventually taken by Child Services away from her father and twin brother, despite me trying so hard to help her. Now, although she does still appear on her father and brother's Simology, they cannot visit or even see her because she is not in the game anymore. ?

I really wish there was someway parents or siblings could still visit kids even if they've been taken by TS4 Child Services. It would even be good if the kids who were taken would become adoptable so another family could raise them. Then, at least, they would still be in the game and playable.
Does anybody else think that the Child Services in The Sims 4 could do with some improvement?

I did this once in the Sims 3. My family took in a homeless teen. 3 days later...killed by his murphy bed. He would have been better off on the streets of Sunset Valley