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). 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. 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.https://i.imgur.com/WExnfnV.pngIt would be cool if Sims had an actual "foster care" option.

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.

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Duhgirl2u2
5 years ago
"CheesySimsLover;d-939621" wrote:
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).

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.

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.

https://i.imgur.com/WExnfnV.png

It would be cool if Sims had an actual "foster care" option.

What a cool idea! I'm going to start doing this I think. Not on my legacy family, because I move the spares out in childhood to the nearest relative so that I can concentrate on making sure all the childhood goals and personality traits I need for that generation are as complete as I can make them, but with my other save(s) I'm going to do your idea I think :)
ArcherDK
5 years ago
There is a mod that allows one to do exactly that - be a foster parent. An EXCELLENT mod that I love to the bones. With that said - yes, that would be a neat base game feature. Wouldn't that be great to have THAT instead of that knitting pack?
troshalom
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
If you have Parenthood you adopt as care dependent. I've done that in households where I placed a new adult to care for kids whose elderly parents died, or when I have a single parent get married. So, using that feature you can pretend to foster

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