Family adopted back their seized toddler?
buddha pest:
I thought once the social worker came for your kids, you were blacklisted for life and would never be able to adopt again?
I'm intentionally creating a Very Bad Life for a couple of my sims, mostly just to see scenarios that I never get to see otherwise (such as the social worker).
Anyway, as the title states, they were still able to adopt again and thus were able to get back their own baby.
I don't much care for that. It's not the sshack or something letting me do that, is it?
I have up to Free Time. Did some EP along the way change/bork this? I can see how it could go unnoticed, as how often does anyone get a social worker visit anyway? I hadn't had one since one of my first play sessions ever, and that was only because I never realized homework was something kids dumped randomly on the grass, and it was my job to find it and make them do it. When it happened this time, I was shocked to see that the kid's hunger and social were literally completely bottomed out, and it happened many hours after the "feed and do stuff with your spawn or we're coming for them" warnings.
Liz:
I don't know from getting blacklisted (though I also would have assumed that would be the case), but I do know that the adoption pool works on a last in/first out basis. Since the kid in question was the last to be taken, she would come up as the first available to be adopted. And if you have things like empty templates and anti-spawning hacks in place, she may well have been the only kid in the pool at all.
keirra:
I've tried adopting right after the social worker took away the kids, and got the message that I'm a bad parent and adoption is not available for me, or something like that. After waiting a couple of sim days, they were able to adopt again.
buddha pest:
Quote from: Liz on 2008 September 09, 00:44:29
I don't know from getting blacklisted (though I also would have assumed that would be the case), but I do know that the adoption pool works on a last in/first out basis. Since the kid in question was the last to be taken, she would come up as the first available to be adopted.
That I do know, but should they be able to successfully request an adoption (potentially of their own neglected child) minutes after the child has been taken away? I've never heard of that before.
Quote from: keirra on 2008 September 09, 02:29:32
I've tried adopting right after the social worker took away the kids, and got the message that I'm a bad parent and adoption is not available for me, or something like that. After waiting a couple of sim days, they were able to adopt again.
If this has always been the case, a lot of so-called sim trauma has been needless.
You'll get your kid back tomorrow at 10 a.m. Cry me a river.
cwieberdink:
Quote from: keirra on 2008 September 09, 02:29:32
I've tried adopting right after the social worker took away the kids, and got the message that I'm a bad parent and adoption is not available for me, or something like that. After waiting a couple of sim days, they were able to adopt again.
this is veering in a slightly different direction from the OPs question, but this might be a good place to use the study...parenting (which as far as I can tell does nothing else). If seasons is installed (that's the one with study parenting, right?) then the people must study parenting in order to be allowed to adopt again if the social worker has removed a child.
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