Gay couple with genetic baby?

Make a mom in CAS and then have your couple try for baby. Once you have your babies. Delete the mom. Your genealogy will still show them being related to their Dads.
Or do the above but don't delete her. Have an alien or vampire wipe her memory. It sets the relationship bar to 0 and she will not contact them.
If you like to use MCC, there is an option to "forget sim" that does the same thing. Thats what I do.
I like MCC for that reason. Male pregnancies weird me out to no end, so my gay couples happily adopt or have surrogates. I also have it set so if a female sim is abducted she will possibly get pregnant, not males.

"Sindocat;c-17168403" wrote:

"Hoverael;c-17168037" wrote:
There should be an option in friendly saying "Help with a Baby". Basically you can ask any random woman, not pregnant and if she'll accept, to go with one of your homosexual characters to the hospital for an hour or two and then they return with a 100% of pregnancy but only one baby will be born.

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I'd also go about restricting some men and women and give them a trait "Same Gender Romance", meaning they will only date and marry people of the same gender to themselves. i'm sure there is a way to allow other parts of the LGTBQ movement to have a role in the game as well. I mean you wouldn't want to see a girl hitting on a guy who has no interest in her and so someone who knows less wouldn't understand that and attempt to get them to enjoy themselves....

As someone who has actually lived these scenarios in various permutations, I can assure you that some women will hit on men they know to be gay. Some can be really persistent about it. And don't get me started on how some straight guys fetishize lesbianism.

Also, asking someone to participate in baby-making, even in a mere biological-donor role, is intensely personal. It should be an Awkward Conversation, at best, for anyone who is not already a Good Friend.

I am of two minds over a queer toggle in CAS. On the one hand, we the player choose our in-game interactions, and I very seldom see same-sex relationships emerge spontaneously from non-directed Sims. The subject is kind of fraught, wherever one is on the topic personally. I think Maxis has balanced options fairly well, as is.

Surrogacy is a tricky issue. I understand why Maxis might steer clear of it.

I don't have any problem with people getting into their own thing or who they fall in love with, everyone is entitled to find happiness. I'm just looking at it from a more practical point of view to avoid the issue that men themselves don't have the equipment to get pregnant and this game seems to encourage something nonsensical. As for the issue of a baby making machine? i can't really see it as a big issue to some women, that is why i mentioned if they accept to it. I'm not getting into the issue of feminism, but rather that if we are playing from a point of view a homosexual couple want children, the first stop is finding a suitable woman who could be a surrogate, that is one that is willing to get pregnant and then deliver the child and walk away.

I do agree that the conversation is going to be a delicate one, so a friendliness target will have to be reached first.

but then you also got programmes in the real world like sperm banks and egg banks for women and men who wish to contribute without actually meeting and it allows those who are having trouble be able to have kids. It can be a very important thing for both men and women who dwell on their future to have a plan in the works for when the time comes.

All i'm offering right now are possibile alternatives.

I had a lesbian couple in one of my saves and wanted them to have a genetic baby. To make it fair I had one sim have one baby each (though one had twins lol). I found a donor sim, in my case Don Lothario was a willing sperm donor and he impregnated them. As the children never met him he never showed up in their relationships as their father. I cant remember if he did in the family tree though. But if you make your own family tree then it's not so much of a problem.

I very seldom see same-sex relationships emerge spontaneously from non-directed Sims

@Sindocat - This reminds me! I was playing the 2nd or 3rd HH I'd made myself in The Sims, soon after Living Large came out. The HH consisted of two female roommates, Kianga and Pilar. I left them alone in their LR for a few minutes while I was doing something else, and when I came back they were flirting and romancing each other! I hadn't planned on that, but of course I rolled with it. I don't remember now whether we could officially marry same-gender sims, but I certainly considered them married. They didn't cheat on each other, either, as another of my should-have-been-monogamous-sims did in that game. I was happy when--in TS2 or 3--they gave us the ability to make a sim monogamous if we wanted to. My sims come in all varieties, & I'd like them to act in character even when I've rotated to another HH & am not controlling them atm.

eta: agreed, in TS4 I haven't seen this happen spontaneously--but I sure saw it in TS1!