Copypasting my comment in the other thread:
I absolutely agree with the statement that there's a serious lack of gay male couples with kids. While it's fantastic that there's queer representation in TS4, it's very unevenly spread. I'm not sure it's done via maliciousness, at least - it's possibly an unconscious bias towards female characters, and, extending from that, female couples. It may also be an unconscious bias towards mothers instead of fathers for families? I checked family composition - of single-parent households, there are four single mothers, Katrina Caliente, Mila Munch, Geeta Rasoya, and Minerva Charm (and arguably Keala Hoapili), and only one single father, Jacques Villareal. Who, uh, is not exactly a shining paragon of fatherhood!
Still, while it's not likely to be done out of maliciousness, I do think they need to address the imbalance. Next pack absolutely needs more representation, and that includes more gay male couples with kids. And more beyond just the next pack, too! I'd like to see a long-term effort in adding more representation for all sorts of people and families.
(I'd personally like to see more Sims that are explicitly trans, like Morgyn! Lia is set as female in everything but body shape, Paka'a is set as male in everything but body shape too, so they're... a reach in terms of representation. So far, Morgyn is it. And I adore Morgyn - literally bounced on my bed in excitement when I saw their gender settings - initially entirely because, yes, they were trans and I had had no one like me until then. So yeah, representation is needed.)
For others in the thread: representation is important. Premade Sims exist for a reason - to flesh out the world. They're not just set dressing - they're playable characters, they're neighbours, friends, family. When you don't have representation, it's hard to feel like it's a world that people like you can belong to.
They don't attach premades to SPs (since, well, no world!), but I'm hoping that for the next GP, we'll see more of a balance regarding representation. I'd love to see a gay couple with a big happy family! More older families! More multi-generational queer families! I'm not entirely sure Maxis would go for it, but I'd love to see poly families! Just family configurations of all sorts, you know?
@LiELF Blossom and Mary Greenberg are elders. Indeed, the household description points out their age, and also gives representation in Knox explicitly being adopted. Still, despite giving older families representation, they're still yet another lesbian couple with a child.
