"Sindocat;c-17167677" wrote:
There is no in-game surrogacy program. The CAS method seems the closest to what you want.
Personally, I use the custom gender options to use Try For Baby, and story-wise simply told myself that Avery, the mom-dad, had been a trans man all along.
But do what suits you best.
I wish there was a way to make custom labels for relationships. It would be cool if you could have a gay couple decide they want to have a baby, then choose to have the baby with a woman as some gay couples do. Then you could edit the relationships to have both men marked as Dad. The. maybe have the woman marked as surrogate or birth mom, or just mom, depending on the game play.
Plus it’d be nice to mark characters as cousins or father-in-law. It bothers me when you have extended family living together, but they’re just labeled as “roommates”.
This would be a really cool feature to add later, since they’ve been updating CAS as it is. Maybe a mod could do this?
At this time, I have all my gay and lesbian couples “adopt” their kid. Usually I make the kid in CAS so it’s not an in-game adoption, but works for me.