Why do neglected kids disappear from existence? LOL

I have often wondered the same
it seems cruel you are beamed out of existence for having bad parents
would much rather at least turn into ghost that can be resurrected or indeed be taken by social worker so another family can adopt via adoption service

"Simmingal;c-18245763" wrote:

would much rather . . . be taken by social worker so another family can adopt via adoption service

I was so used to it working that way in Sims 2 that I was unprepared the first time a kid was taken away in Sims 4. Imagine my horror to find that poor little orphan, an A student who had just earned the Creatively Gifted trait, with extended family eager (per head cannon) to adopt her, had actually been deleted from existence! What twisted mind thought this up?

In Sims 2, any kids that were taken from you went into the adoption pool. So you could "seed" the pool for your Sims if you wanted to. I liked to put alien babies in the pool.

They just need to bring this back.

"lisamwitt;c-18245775" wrote:
In Sims 2, any kids that were taken from you went into the adoption pool. So you could "seed" the pool for your Sims if you wanted to. I liked to put alien babies in the pool.

They just need to bring this back.

Nope they should let other households in the save adopt the children and still remain them in the genealogy and yes the parents SHOULD have the option of meeting the neglected child…I mean why can't there be these options…does MC Command Center allow us to adopt neglected Sims? Hmmm…anyways they should fix this annoying problem.

What happened to the ”You Rule” thing they had? Why is there no option to keep the neglected Sims in your save and let some other household adopt them? :(

"lisamwitt;c-18245775" wrote:
In Sims 2, any kids that were taken from you went into the adoption pool. So you could "seed" the pool for your Sims if you wanted to. I liked to put alien babies in the pool.

They just need to bring this back.

Ohhh wait nevermind, I thought it wouldn't work the way I hoped if they did it the Sims 2 way. That would be way better than nothing. But maybe they could go beyond that and be a little more ”realistic” hmm…however thank you EA/Maxis for infants and Growing Together EP! I really love the update and EP and having a lot of fun despite the game crashing on my laptop every once in a while… :D

I'm playing semi-rotationally (sometimes Long/Short Aging On while switching between the families and sometimes Off) an expanded legacy family save that I created with my friend and it is so sad that when my friend made the matriarch had her first twin boys, the other one was unintentionally neglected (by my friend, she had a LOT of work to do :D ) and it got taken away by the social worker service. So sad that Markes won't meet his twin brother, Jotes, ever again…

Yes, MCCC has an option for adoption of neglected sims - I've never used it, just turned it on, so no idea how it works.

"WildIrishBanshee;c-18245797" wrote:
Yes, MCCC has an option for adoption of neglected sims - I've never used it, just turned it on, so no idea how it works.

Oohh, I knew it had that option, maybe I should give it a try. I have used MCCC for a long time, for years, but recently I have played vanilla despite a ”More CAS/Random names” mod in my game. Lol.

"ULIBABA66;c-18245802" wrote:

"WildIrishBanshee;c-18245797" wrote:
Yes, MCCC has an option for adoption of neglected sims - I've never used it, just turned it on, so no idea how it works.

Oohh, I knew it had that option, maybe I should give it a try. I have used MCCC for a long time, for years, but recently I have played vanilla despite a ”More CAS/Random names” mod in my game. Lol.

Just an FYI - MCCC isn't completely updated for Infants yet. For example, they have a 35 day age span in my game, and there's no way to change it unless you use another mod. I've been using UI Cheats to make their age span more in line with everyone else.