I started 2 ABC families.

1st family lasted one generation. My Adoptee Angel was a Architect who definitely wanted children right. well after 9 emails and not a single definitely or anything close I switch to another family for a little bit. (maybe a hour or so) I come back to Angel..Lying in Repose on the bed at 35. Dont know what he had or what happened he just died.. Not even 1 full generation.

2nd family my adoptee Aryn had to wait until she was 44 yrs old before she got a man who definitely wanted children.. I didnt even care if he got me a trophy. and guess what.. For some reason they couldnt have children.. put them together.. kiss kiss no baby every time.

In neither family was a child left on their doorstep nada. WHY are unlikely candidates sent in email and waste so many years? Anyone else agree that the emails need to change and either become more frequent or we should be allowed a search menu so we can find someone that fits what we are looking for..cause I am really at the point where I am going to quit playing the game!

My couples cant seem to have multiples, nor find a suitable match before they hit 40.. and finishing collections and/or finding bugs is ridicules. it takes forever to earn a promotion, gain a large enough amount to even help them along. and come on it takes almost 80,000 dollars + to repair and upgrade the house.. explain to me why it costs so much for a upgrade which if you only buy food and energy drinks for the first 3 generations will you be able to afford it then another 4 generations to get the second upgrade. the funniest one is 4500 for a pinball game.. yeah sure..

ok.. im going to cancel three of my families including my restarted 3 times ABC family cause im getting no where with any of them. i'll stick with my 2 families that are in their 8 generation's and have close to 20k saved each.

Angela

Their preference for children means very little. They have no problem having kids even if they say "No Way." They might not have six kids, but they'll have one or two. I don't even look at what they say about kids anymore when I'm picking a peep to adopt or marry.

You can upgrade your house fully (yes, all possible upgrades) in the 2nd generation, by doing one simple thing: buy nothing except food in the 1st generation. In my families I usually have over $100,000 by the end of the 2nd generation. It's the interest rate that causes money to build up ridiculously fast. The less you spend, the faster the money will grow.

Yeah, both of my sets of triplets were born to families where at least one of the people was a "not reallys"!!

The game says that they will be happier with compatible spouses but that's not my experience. I'm not even sure what the designers intended with that statement. I never reject more than 3 proposals, because they are getting to old to have children.

It would be nice if the proposals either came faster or you had a slight selection with each (say 3-5).

I'm on my 19th generation now, and this is the first one where I have adopted kids before getting married.

Wiki, my peep, DEFINITELY wants kids, and I had 2 adoption events, one after the other.

I don't know if there's something to do with her wanting to have kids this many children coming to her door. Maybe it does, as this is my first peep that really wants to have kids (all the others were from "not really" to "no way").

In my new family, I purposely adopted someone that said "No Way!" to having kids just to see what would happen, and she and her "Not Really" husband went on to having five kids! They made a baby on the first try every time I put them together to make babies.
I have noticed that it kind of seems like I get more chances to adopt kids when both parents are "Definitely" or "Would Be Nice", but that could just be a coincidence (or my mind playing tricks on me, he he).

I was thinking the same thing, Parazombie!

My peeps never had problems having kids - all my families had 6 kids, but one with 5, and most of the parents didn't want kids at all.

The adoption thing, though, I think happens with parents who like kids.

I had adoptions on other families and now I'm thinking of looking if they wanted kids or not...

Let's go research...

oh oh - just opened the game to find out that the information about wanting or not to have kids is not on the family tree...

I'll pay attention to that from now on.