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.

I made a foster family although with how that household's game play is, those poor foster children probably would be better off in a different home.

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.

"CheesySimsLover;c-16470002" wrote:

"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.

That option is only there for sims in the same household, though. If you move sims between households they'll still have the care-dependent relationship, but you can't add it for sims that aren't in the same household.

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've done this too. I also have MCCC and my sims will sometimes get random siblings or sims I don't play have kids that don't live with them and I end up moving them all in together XD

"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.

MCC moved Casey Lynx-McConnell's little sister in with their dad after their mom died. I've been trying to set her up with Jake's cousin Dominic, but she apparently has a boyfriend. Dominic is the last remaining Parker alive and I think he's almost an elder! (Jake and his wife are five days away from becoming elders themselves and their son is going to be a father in a few sim-days!)

I did this with the younger half-siblings of two of the sims in my current save. I played a single mom who had twin boys with another sim I created and moved into a different neighborhood. It never ended up working out with the parents, and the dad ended up marrying and having children (also twins, but is one male, one is female) with another woman. When the dad and his wife died, MCCC moved the twins into two different households. When I learned this, I used manage households to move them in with their half-brothers, even though, by this point, their mother had died of old age and they were already raising their other two younger siblings. They were an interesting family to play.