Has anyone ever used the adopt a sim feature before?

I use it. You see a list of kids pop up and choose one and then your sim goes to the adoption agency (rabbit hole) and comes back with the kid

"SimAlexandria;c-17259572" wrote:
I use it. You see a list of kids pop up and choose one and then your sim goes to the adoption agency (rabbit hole) and comes back with the kid

Does it show who their previous parents were

"hunniboo1;c-17259596" wrote:

"SimAlexandria;c-17259572" wrote:
I use it. You see a list of kids pop up and choose one and then your sim goes to the adoption agency (rabbit hole) and comes back with the kid

Does it show who their previous parents were

No. They are randomly generated kids not in the world unless you adopt them.

I used it once, when I first started playing. I got a girl named Olive Fresh. But other than that, I just make my own orphans. That way, I can ensure they have good genetics, and they won't appear in the family tree in the same way a biological child would.

i love the adoption feature, though i've only used it twice

I made the Landgraabs (well actually half of the Landgraabs, Geoffrey remarried) adopt because they were elders and just like a poster above mentioned the sim goes into a rabbit hole and some time later comes back with a child. In my case it was a toddler and that sim joined the family tree.

I dislike the adoption in game because as far as the game is concerned it is like these children you do adopt are your natural born children rather than other couples children they can't look out for any more. i tried to use the adoption feature to get three girls into a family for the three natural born sons of this one parent, but because they are considered like natural born children, it is considered incest if they become teenages and choose to fall in love (and with mccc i already tried it before).

Thr adoption system in game needs a bit of work for sure. These kids need their own parents and when they are adopted, in the relationship panel the bar indicating friendship is empty but the game remembers the childrens parents and so by law until they reach a certain age, they are considered like children and siblings, but only as far as law says, beyond that there is no connection.

i found another way around the issue. if the MCCC feature puts single children out on their own household, i can pick those strays up and put them in my household, at least there they'd be considered like family like how it is meant to be and those children would be perfect when they age up to get them married to each other without risk of incest involved.

Used it twice. Adopted one toddler and one child. They actually grew up to be really attractive Sims. Nice genetics.

I like the adoption feature and use it regularly. I also think that they implememted it correctly with adding adopted children to the family tree.
@Hoverael Nothing against your playstyle, but I would think it very odd if you were able to adopt children as future spouses for your offspring. As IRL children who grow up together should be considered siblings. I guess I would not have an issue, if they made it optional to add the adopted child to the family tree, but I would definitely never adopt that way because otherwise there would be romantic options later on that I would not want to show up in my game.

I've used it twice. Getting younger children from the adoption system is quite exciting since you don't really know what your sim is going to look like as they get older. It's kinda like a lucky dip! I'm hoping to use the system more when I get back into playing.