Why are there no other ethnic groups included in virtual families? I would be nice to see some families of color..

Although we understand that many people would like to see more varied skin colors or cultural representation in our games, there are several reasons for the somewhat limited skin colors. I'd like to show you a topic that mentions a very important reason why the games do not have more color diversity.

http://www.ldwforums.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=140558#Post140558

I guess Lewanda tried modding more skin colours for VF1 and it was pretty difficult to make it work because of what Xay said above. I'm not sure if the mods are still available here.

Yes, Lewanda's mod is still available for VF1. It's located in the Head Mod Listings of the Mod Directory, #2 to be exact.