Has anyone ever used the adopt a sim feature before?

I alternate between the adoption and having the parents foster a child. My same sex male couples always adopt when they don't foster. And, in each game I have a middle aged couple who are infertile that either adopt or become foster parents

"Netzspannung;c-17259942" wrote:
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.

By law they are considered siblings, in reality the DNA of one sibling to an adopted siblings DNA has no match, meaning there is nothing familial about them and that means there isn't anything to worry about if they saw interest in each other. What i have a problem with is that the game sees the adopted sibling as the same DNA instead of as an unrelated, which is plainly absurd.

When was the last time someone adopted a child in real life and the genes of the adopted child suddenly shifted to the new parents and suddenly became related? all i'm saying is that something like that isn't possible.

"Hoverael;c-17260022" wrote:

"Netzspannung;c-17259942" wrote:
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.

By law they are considered siblings, in reality the DNA of one sibling to an adopted siblings DNA has no match, meaning there is nothing familial about them and that means there isn't anything to worry about if they saw interest in each other. What i have a problem with is that the game sees the adopted sibling as the same DNA instead of as an unrelated, which is plainly absurd.

When was the last time someone adopted a child in real life and the genes of the adopted child suddenly shifted to the new parents and suddenly became related? all i'm saying is that something like that isn't possible.

Thanks, I am familiar with how DNA works. I just believe that family is less about genes than you do, which is fine. Like I said if they wanted to add the option, fine. I just think it would be weird if the default was that a Sim could run into another Sim they adopted and raised and have a romantic relationship, but that is my personal view.

"Hoverael;c-17259880" wrote:
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.

Are you maybe thinking of fostering as opposed to adoption? It is illegal for adopted siblings to marry in my country. In fact, an adopted child is issued a new birth certificate with the names of the adopted parents on it. In adulthood, some adopted children may choose to search out their birth families, but the adoptive parents are still the legal parents.

Bringing children into your family for the purpose of raising them as future wives for your sons sounds morally questionable to me if it were real life. Lol, of course, we are all free to do as we wish with our Sims.

I haven't used this feature before but would like to in the future. The information shared here is really helpful.

Is the fostering done the same way as the adoptions?

Yep where I live you can't marry an adopted sibling.

And a baby or toddler that you adopt would not be treated different than bio kids.

like if you were to introduce them you wouldn't be saying "these are my kids and this is my adopted kid" ... It would just be "these are my children" period. The adoptive parents are their parents.

For this reason I like how ea does it.

Adopted children are treated the same as biological children in game because allowing inter familial relationships would strip the game of its T rating. There are mods that cannot be named here that have settings to change this but I see why they don’t allow it in the base game.

I've adopted a few times in the game and I generally like how it works. Same sex couples tend to adopt in my game such as the Heckings. I agree that I generally wouldn't think of them as potential spouses. I don't know what will happen with Duane Talla because the way I've played him, he was only briefly fostered as a teen by the Kealohas through a community tribal approach so he isn't a typical adopted kid. Even then, I can't say that he'll end up with Nani, the age gap might be too wide.

I should incorporate adoption more often. I agree that it's interesting to see how the kids turn out as they grow up.

I've used the adoption feature before, but it's been years. In my main save, which has been going on since Get Together's release, my tactic for adoption is to have another family/couple/Sim (whatever their story might be) have a child, "give it up for adoption", and then have one of my others "adopt" them.

The reason I prefer doing it this way is because then I actually feel the child has more meaning and there's potential for an actual backstory, if that makes sense.
Unlike the adoption feature, where children are randomly generated out of the void of nothing with no biological family or anything.

i use it alot