Does that work to treat the members of the family differently?

I wondered because when I praise 1 member for doing something, it always seems like the others are quick to copy.

Good question.
That seems to be the case in my families also. One family is crazy about dancing (praised them a lot for doing it) and all members seem to join in, even without praising.

With the Beverly Hills Family, it takes some extra effort to make the hubby do other things than the mum. But I just keep scolding him for doing housework, and praise her for doing it.
And vice versa, when I see mum doing 'man-stuff'. As far as I can tell, it has effect.
I encourage mum to do beauty-things in the bathroom, and she does put on make-up and beauty-masks very regularly. Very funny.
The hubby now rarely goes looking for laundry or do dishes. Instead, he does more of the stuff I reward him for (giving sweet candy/fruit works a lot better.)
They do still try to emancipate, though
So I just keep 'brainwashing' them. Gives me something extra to do, and it's fun for me to run a family in this way, because it's sooooo not my own style!

Oh, and another thing: I didn't buy them the radio yet. All that dancing-stuff doesn't match their life-style in this first generation. They'll get the swimmingpool soon, and got the flatscreen first. But I think the next generation will want to get the radio/MP3 player. I think I'll just not praise them if they go dancing, but not scold them for it either. (Unless they go dance-freaky and I'll need to correct them )

Well Bren: In my head I see images of The Simpsons family when I read that

I've been running multiple families as well, but I just let them whatever they want to do (except for work, I sure praise them to earn money) and strangely, each family seems to have their own habbits. One family is crazy about birds and pool, another likes to watch tv, another family never watches tv except for the youngest boy (he sits in front of the tv all alone), another family is so well behaved; grown ups work all the time, teenagers study or do homework, kids play in the sandbox or with toys.

Tamarinde: I like your idea! I can't wait to try something like this out. I tried to do something like this for the VV games but never seemed to make much difference, but this sounds like it would work. I have a question though. Do you change all your little friend's names or keep them the same? I like the names and haven't been changing them much myself, but I think it might be funny to have snooty names in the Beverly Hills family, like Winston or Guinevere. Just a thought.

Wow, that does seem like a pretty good idea. Never thought of it, now I want to try that sometime.
I have two families and I pretty much let them do what they want. The only difference between them is that in the second one they are practically broke. I keep making the mother have kids (they only have 2 so far, though), and I chose as her husband a guy who only brought 46$ with him. They only have 84$ in the bank now. Funny how in my other family, where they have 6 kids, there aren't any money problems.

Hi Fabala.

Nice to hear you like the idea
Yes, I do change the names most of the time, to be fitting the family. But I try to stay close to the originals if possible.
In Beverly Hills the mum was Jota, so I renamed her Nota since she is a lawyer, and hubby I named Bill. They are so keen on money
Luckily the first babygirl was Sunny, that seemed fitting enough. Second babygirl I named Cher. Next generation, I'd like a Posh Spice, Britney, that kinda names...

Hi Jo13,
Thanks!

If I'd have a 'poor' family like that, I think I'd go for the 'Back to basics' family-style
And act/react accordingly with decisions about praising, scolding, order of getting upgrades or stuff from the store.
Like, go for the radio, not the flatscreen or paintings etc, and mostly try to make them happy by doing fun-stuff together rather than be elated with luxury items.
And wait for the 'free hammock' and hoping for a lot of food-at-the-door events!
Don't have a family like that yet, you just gave me a good idea! Gonna try working on that one, thanks!

(Oh, and good to know that your other family gets by okay with so many kids. Proves that it CAN be done )

You're welcome.
Yes, it can be done, I guess I just got very lucky with my first family, after hearing the problems that lots of people are having with getting 6 kids. My little people are just very fertile, it seems...
Oh, and now I have 6 kids in the "poor family" too... 6 girls, including 2 sets of twins in a row. And there was also an earthquake there today. I swear that family must be cursed.