What is 'adopt as care dependent'?

> @Jeorgia said:
> This happened to me too. Before the mother, Anabell, was pregnant, she had a best friend that she lived with, Vanessa. The Anabell and the father, Travis, split up when the toddler, Viola, was born. He left them both. I was playing and it gave Vanessa the open to be the caretaker of Viola. I clicked on it and the notification said this; “Vanessa is now the caregiver of Viola. This means she will check on the toddlers needs on a regular basis.” Hope I helped :)

Anybody else in the household tends to do the "check toddler" interaction incessantly whether or not they're set to be a caregiver or not. The difference is with the discipline interactions. A sim has to be specifically set to be a caregiver (they'll get "from being a caregiver" whims just from living in the same household even if they haven't actually adopted the toddler as a care dependent) in order to be able to tell the toddler to not make a mess, have a tantrum, etc.

A sim living in the same house has a toddler who they haven't adopted as a care dependent pretty much as all of the responsibilities for the kid, just without any authority.

In my game Diego chose to be this to his new wife's daughter. Basically he became her legal father, or as we call it IRL: Her step-dad.

Does anyone else have an issue where a non-related caregiver (definitely has the child/teen as a care dependent, I checked) won't get certain milestones for parenting achievements unlocked? specifically these goals:

Super Parent: Have a child with a character value within range to receive a trait
Successful Lineage: Have a child earn an "A" in High School (not sure if the "have a child max any skill" one is affected too, haven't gotten that far)
Big Happy Family: Be a parent to a child with 3 friends
and Be friends with 3 of your children (only two kids in household but the counter by this still says 0/3)

All of these unlocked just fine for the kids' biological parents.

"MissDirect;c-16336298" wrote:
Does anyone else have an issue where a non-related caregiver (definitely has the child/teen as a care dependent, I checked) won't get certain milestones for parenting achievements unlocked? specifically these goals:

Super Parent: Have a child with a character value within range to receive a trait
Successful Lineage: Have a child earn an "A" in High School (not sure if the "have a child max any skill" one is affected too, haven't gotten that far)
Big Happy Family: Be a parent to a child with 3 friends
and Be friends with 3 of your children (only two kids in household but the counter by this still says 0/3)

All of these unlocked just fine for the kids' biological parents.

I have highlighted the important spots in your post.
The reason of this is simple: Caregiver is not the child's parent. They are one of two groups of sims who will check on the child and raise them.
Like I said in the previous post, caregivers can be either related or unrelated sims (that aren't their parent) in the same household as child who will take care of them with parents. I quote my previous post here. I hope it helps.

"EgonVM;c-16073798" wrote:
Ok. Time to explain.
Young adult, adult and elder sims can adopt toddler/child/teen in the same household as care dependent and kids can make adults in the same household as their caregiver. Caregivers act like parents, but there is some additional information that you need to know.
Adopting a toddler as care dependent doesn't require any game packs and can be done by teens. While all sims can fulfill toddler's needs, parents and caregivers will make sure toddler stays happy. If Parenthood is installed, caregivers can also do Parenting actions to them.
Adopting a child or teen as care dependent will require Parenthood game pack and cannot be done by teens. Caregivers gain access to Parenting interactions, meaning only parents and caregivers can punish and encourage them, help with needs, influence/force them to do something ect.
Note. Teens cannot gain Parenting skill.

Another note. Sims outside of kid's household cannot adopt them as care dependent and vice versa.

Yet another note. If you have sim be a child's caregiver and then move them out, they'll eventually come back and stay at the house the child is living in. If you don't want this bug happen to you, remove them as care dependent/caregiver before moving them out.

In one family, the child's mothers were both living at home and the grandmother, who also lived there, had the option to adopt her as care dependent. In another family, I added the clone of a neighborhood girl to the family and the father was able to adopt her, but the mother had to settle for caregiver. Clones' biological parents are the same as the original and the original already had a mother.
*Fun fact, the cloned girl was cloned and adopted by an alien family. She was turned into a vampire by her current wife and they are the biological mothers of the first girl mentioned above. Things coming full circle, as things often do, the mother who was raised by aliens was, today, abducted by a UFO. Crazy goings-on in my neck of the woods. What a blast! :)

I'm very grateful for that option because when you play with restructured families or friends with children living together and whatnot is super useful. And it's realistic as well.

So exactly what does it do?

Hope that helps. :smile: That said this thread's a wee bit old and considering it was last active in September on top of that, I am going to close it now. :smile: