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WizardJeremyArch
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11 years ago

How do you get a neglected child back?

my child on the sims 4 just kept playing the gaming rig while she was starving and had very low hygiene, I tried making her go get food but the gaming rig wasn't done until she finnished so i cancelled her action and then she got taken a safe place because of neglectment. It said i have to wait awhile and its been 3 sim days and i cannot find a way to get her back. please help

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  • I'm hoping the don't save trick works. I've been in the game this morning and left it open. It's such a sad tragedy for this family. Mother drowned after doing a cannonball in the pool. I made her fulfill a whim but didn't notice how tired she was. She was "happy" so I sent her out to have fun in the pool. I killed her. She had triplets, a toddler, and a child and she must have just been deeply exhausted. So today they took all three babies. The nanny and the father were there and I even had a mod to make the nanny ignore tv and actually do her duties. Father has been passing out all over the place. The oldest is still so sad it makes me cry. I want to get the mommy back but I don't think she would have the memory of her husband and kids. How does that work? Where is the mommy now? I wasn't looking when she died (helping with triplets) and couldn't see the pool. She was already in the urn so I put it in the child's inventory. Ghost mother called daughter and wanted to see her at a night club. What's with that? Does that mean she will haunt the kids?
    I'm new to Sims, if you hadn't figured that out yet. :D I briefly played the first game when my kids were little and I've played the Freeplay game.
    I really liked that family and I just want them back! :'(
  • "liblady76;c-15944978" wrote:
    I'm hoping the don't save trick works. I've been in the game this morning and left it open. It's such a sad tragedy for this family. Mother drowned after doing a cannonball in the pool. I made her fulfill a whim but didn't notice how tired she was. She was "happy" so I sent her out to have fun in the pool. I killed her. She had triplets, a toddler, and a child and she must have just been deeply exhausted. So today they took all three babies. The nanny and the father were there and I even had a mod to make the nanny ignore tv and actually do her duties. Father has been passing out all over the place. The oldest is still so sad it makes me cry. I want to get the mommy back but I don't think she would have the memory of her husband and kids. How does that work? Where is the mommy now? I wasn't looking when she died (helping with triplets) and couldn't see the pool. She was already in the urn so I put it in the child's inventory. Ghost mother called daughter and wanted to see her at a night club. What's with that? Does that mean she will haunt the kids?
    I'm new to Sims, if you hadn't figured that out yet. :D I briefly played the first game when my kids were little and I've played the Freeplay game.
    I really liked that family and I just want them back! :'(


    Hello
    You could try rolling back to an earlier version of your save game, before this occurred, and see if that helps. To do that, go to the main screen of sims 4, and click on the " load game " button.Click on your save game file picture. Then click on the " recover game " button down the right hand side bottom of the screen,. Press on an earlier version of the save game from the menu that pops up. Then load that save game version.
  • > @rosemow said:
    > liblady76 wrote: »
    > oh, thanks so much. The don't save didn't work to get the babies back, but Father adopted a baby and I have never seen him happier. He went through the roof with happiness!!

    > I'm hoping the don't save trick works. I've been in the game this morning and left it open. It's such a sad tragedy for this family. Mother drowned after doing a cannonball in the pool. I made her fulfill a whim but didn't notice how tired she was. She was "happy" so I sent her out to have fun in the pool. I killed her. She had triplets, a toddler, and a child and she must have just been deeply exhausted. So today they took all three babies. The nanny and the father were there and I even had a mod to make the nanny ignore tv and actually do her duties. Father has been passing out all over the place. The oldest is still so sad it makes me cry. I want to get the mommy back but I don't think she would have the memory of her husband and kids. How does that work? Where is the mommy now? I wasn't looking when she died (helping with triplets) and couldn't see the pool. She was already in the urn so I put it in the child's inventory. Ghost mother called daughter and wanted to see her at a night club. What's with that? Does that mean she will haunt the kids?
    > I'm new to Sims, if you hadn't figured that out yet. :D I briefly played the first game when my kids were little and I've played the Freeplay game.
    > I really liked that family and I just want them back! :'(
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    >
    > Hello
    > You could try rolling back to an earlier version of your save game, before this occurred, and see if that helps. To do that, go to the main screen of sims 4, and click on the " load game " button.Click on your save game file picture. Then click on the " recover game " button down the right hand side bottom of the screen,. Press on an earlier version of the save game from the menu that pops up. Then load that save game version.
  • "liblady76;c-15945039" wrote:
    > @rosemow said:
    > liblady76 wrote: »
    > oh, thanks so much. The don't save didn't work to get the babies back, but Father adopted a baby and I have never seen him happier. He went through the roof with happiness!!

    > I'm hoping the don't save trick works. I've been in the game this morning and left it open. It's such a sad tragedy for this family. Mother drowned after doing a cannonball in the pool. I made her fulfill a whim but didn't notice how tired she was. She was "happy" so I sent her out to have fun in the pool. I killed her. She had triplets, a toddler, and a child and she must have just been deeply exhausted. So today they took all three babies. The nanny and the father were there and I even had a mod to make the nanny ignore tv and actually do her duties. Father has been passing out all over the place. The oldest is still so sad it makes me cry. I want to get the mommy back but I don't think she would have the memory of her husband and kids. How does that work? Where is the mommy now? I wasn't looking when she died (helping with triplets) and couldn't see the pool. She was already in the urn so I put it in the child's inventory. Ghost mother called daughter and wanted to see her at a night club. What's with that? Does that mean she will haunt the kids?
    > I'm new to Sims, if you hadn't figured that out yet. :D I briefly played the first game when my kids were little and I've played the Freeplay game.
    > I really liked that family and I just want them back! :'(
    >
    >
    >
    >
    > Hello
    > You could try rolling back to an earlier version of your save game, before this occurred, and see if that helps. To do that, go to the main screen of sims 4, and click on the " load game " button.Click on your save game file picture. Then click on the " recover game " button down the right hand side bottom of the screen,. Press on an earlier version of the save game from the menu that pops up. Then load that save game version.


    Hello
    It is great that the father is very happy after adopting the baby :)
  • I don't know if this would help, but I had MC Command Center help me get my child back from that 'bug'.

    In Mc Command Center, I had an option that if my child was taken away it would be adopted by a household in the Sim's world. So when that happened, I was able to find the household. I first split the household with one adult and child, and then went back to the family I was playing and put the toddler (It was a baby when it was taken away, and had to force age it to toddler) back to its family.

    It does suck though because I feel like we should be able to see their needs, especially since if the baby's icon is green, most of us are not going to worry about it.

  • Go on to uncover save it works I just did it coz I lost a child to
  • EA_DarDar's avatar
    EA_DarDar
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    8 years ago
    Hey Folks,

    It appears that this thread keeps getting dug up, the original post is from September 2014. I appreciate everyone coming to offer their opinions and advice but I'm going to close it down to save it from necro.

    Thanks again!
    DarDar.
  • The sims 4 has an incomplete social services system in the background of their game. I mean, sims can adopt children and pets. I imagine some of these NPCs are randomly generated, while others come from unplayed households where guardian aged sims died, and the children and pets were orphaned. I mean, a household can be created with only a teenager sim, but not children or pets.

    Generally, if a child sim is neglected for any duration (typically because the player is unable to interrupt the action queue for their sim), they are taken away by social services. However, the player can't have their sim petition the social services department (if it actually exists) for visitation rights or custody. And assuming the game places the child in an unplayed NPC household, has anyone ever seen their child sim spawn in world with their new NPC family? 

     

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