adoption -couple of ideas
There's two things i want to talk about here. The first one will be about a potential adoption indicator if an child is old enoguh to remember his/her parents. I don't know about ones that aren't. The 2nd one will be 2 ideas related to giving up your para child for adoption
Adoption Indicator:
Some of us don't like how the adoption system works with the Sims series (that when the kid is adopted, the kid somehow becomes the adoptive parents' bio child and any children the adoptive parents have the adopted child becomes those children's bio sibling. I'm not going to get in what happens with Sims 2 if an older sibling adopted an orphan under-age child sibling or the genetics problem).
Some of us would like (I say an "indicator" for lack of a better term) of being able to differentiate without having to do it *outside* of the game that one child/sibling is adoptive. Like maybe a different coloured line on the family tree or a different colour "frame" around their "indicator"
Along with a birthday maybe there should be an "gotcha day" for adopted children?
Giving up Para child for adoption
I think giving up a Para child for adoption could work in two ways. One would be closed adoption- where there's no contact with the adoptive family unless the child wants to contact the birth parents when they're older
The other idea would be open-book adoption where the Para parents would chose which person or couple would be the adoptive parents and there could be cards, and get-togethers until the birth-mom/birth parents choose to cut off contact. Could still lead to the same scenario as the other one where the child wants to find out about birth families.
Misc:
- if our para children are taken by a social services, they should be put into an adoption centre and not wipe off the map as happens in Sims 4
- I hope wills are a thing so that our paras can assign a legal guardian.