The only down side of doing it this way is that you're losing the interest on that $4000 that you've used to adopt a child. Plus, not having a spouse at the beginning reduces your income by 1/2.

You can adopt a child right up until the parent passes away, so even if your couple remains childless, you should have enough money to "buy" (sorry...that's how I think of it! a child before that happens.

I just married. I would have denied the request because he dislikes children, but he has the same job as my adoptee. So they argue over that stuff but they tried for kids once...with no luck. I only have 900plus dollars.

well, hey, don't complain! Right now I onLy have 542, because of those LOTTERY TICKETS!!!

Well, I just did an experiment and the room upgrades DO make a difference. The mom is working in the kitchen where there are 4 upgrades and dad is in the office with no upgrades. She's part way through level 3 even though she's had 2 kids. He's only half way through level 2, so the upgrades DO work!

Yes, they do, but when you buy them don't expect them to have a huge career boost. but, the more upgrades you have, the bigger boost.

Haha lottery tickets sucked me in too. I can't even go into that page anymore because I can't spend anymore on lotto tickets. I now have 200. I'm bankrupt again.

Yes, those lottery tickets are strange, they are what we despise most and also what we love most.

I don't mind spending 4k at the beginning of each generation. Spending money makes money in my view and I have all the career upgrades so it makes it up pretty quickly. With my current couple I changed their careers 3 and 4 times each until I got the money making careers I wanted. It set me back 8k, which was all my money, but now that they are both masters I have almost 30k for the next generation making it a 22k profit.

The adopted child is not a profit, but it keeps the parent company and halts depression until a suitable spouse comes along. Meaning more time to work and less time moping around depressed. It also gets me attached to the child when there's only one, or sometimes two, to focus on. I also like the idea of an integrated family, it's less boring

I've been buying the career items and leaving the house upgrades for later. My idea was to make them earn money faster and then upgrade my house. But the thing is soooooooo slow!!!! It takes ages (literally) for them to earn money. Now that I reached the most expensive career items on the list it's taking me about 2 generations to get an item. Boring.

I adopt children because it's easier to clean up the house and yard with more hands on deck. Kids are faster at getting wrappers to the trash, socks to the laundry, etc. More kids also means more cute things happening around the house.

I'm at a stage where I'm trying to get perfect career matches (congrats on yours, Salted8) and so I adopt a kid or two to make sure I have a new generation. In two of my families that's working out fine, they have plenty of coins. My third family has had worse luck. I think I may have to shelve the idea of a perfect match in that one and get a few high earners in there and concentrate on careers for a while.