Is it just my games or does it seem that it gets harder and harder to have kids with each new generation?

I had NO problems getting to 6 kids with the first few generations and now (4-5) generation I find it is hard to even have 3!

"We" keep trying but it seems that even with all the jumping around there is no stork. And 'we' get a lot more "Arguing" than before?

I have tried to pass on the house to Defenitly or Would be nice couples and it doesn't seem to help.

i had a lot of adoptees early on, less now, even though i've never turned one down. i KNOW it's just a computer game, but i would feel bad turning a little orphan down. in fact, in a family with an adoptee, i'm way more likely to leave the house to the adoptee, bc i feel sorry for them. i'm pathetic lol.

I have found that sometimes if you give one or both parents the perfume/cologne, it cuts down on the arguing. I guess it puts them in the mood, lol.

My families all have children 2 years or older, but the parents will not have another child - I can't get them to go into the bedroom together...What should I do?

try the baby boost or cologne

What message are you getting when you try? There are two possibilities: they argue or it's too soon. The correct answer depends on which of those situations you are dealing with.

Well, I've been turning down orphans left and right lately, but that's because they've been showing up when my adults are turning into elders! I see no point in taking in three-year-olds when they're going to lose their adoptive parents before they're ten.

Yes you're right the is no point in adopting a 3 yr old kid if their parents die,but when they do die the left over kids will automatically be in college ready to inherit the house and money. Also it just means that you have more kids to choose from so you might get a be chance for desire of kids.

I agree with virtuoso. Also, the kids are particularly useful to do a lot of the chores that might take a long while for the elderly to carry out like picking up trash, weeding, and so on. In addition, it's always fun to watch the kids in VF. When you just have a couple of elderly peeps doddering about the game is rather less interesting.

I've noticed that all my couples in all my games for generation after generation refuse to have babies before the previous ones are at least 5 or 6 years old - usually 7 is the earliest I can get them to quit arguing with me about it. They always say it's too soon to try to make another baby.

When they argue I just keep picking them up and dropping them together again until they go try make a baby. If they say it's too soon then I make sure they're fed, close the game and try again after about 20 minutes, over and over again. I am certainly persistent.

I am only in generation 1 and struggled just to get my couple to have three! They are in their forties now, and I think I will try once more for a fourth. Both of them definitely wanted children.

There has never been a time when my couple hasn't argued about it "being the right time for children" if you just keep repeating the action eventually they will. At most it took four times to have another baby.

tried the cologne...worked like a charm!!

Hmm, try a Doctor's Consultation and see if they need a baby boost. And if your peeps have money, use a baby boost on both peeps, even if they don't have any "disadvantages".
Even if so, use perfume/cologne whenever you get the chance.

I have a couple of def. wanting children and I have tried 3 times already and they still won't have one. And the doctor says she is fine. And now they are tired. I'm like you haven't done anything.

That happened to me msnana. They both defenately wanted children, and they couldn't get any till about the fifth try!! I was confused too!!

the weird thing is that I seem to have more children when I have parents that don't want children! Weird, right?

I got tired of dealing with them so I started over and now I have a woman who think "it would be nice" and a man who "no way" wanted kids and they have 3.

I always take little orphans even if the parents are old. However i never leave the house to one, i feel that if i did that the house would lose the family.

I have never adopted an orphan although i think i would if my couple was completely childless and getting on in years and if the adopted child was the only one to leave it too that is the only way to continue the game.

I took in the first orphan that came to my door and he turned out to be a brat. If there was a bad behavior... he did it. I tried to train him but was eventually glad when he headed off to college.

No way he's getting the house!