Social worker

The Social Worker is an NPC who will take away a Baby, Toddler, or Child if their needs drop too low. If a player has the Expansion Pack Seasons and the child becomes too cold or too hot, they will also be taken away. If there are any other children under Teen in the house, they will all be removed. Once they are taken away, they will all be available for adoption by a different family (or families). Once a person has the memory of having a child taken away by the Social Worker, they are ineligible for adopting ever again.

The only way to stop the Social Worker from taking away children without cheats is the Plead with Social Worker interaction, which is only available in FreeTime to Family Sims via lifetime aspiration benefits. Even if there is a wall around the children, the Social Worker will teleport the child out of the structure and to her car.

Player Stories

 * In my game When i used the gypsy matchmaker my blind date was... the Social worker!! I got her to move in and then married her. -Slew
 * In my game, the Social Worker reproached my sim and then they knew each other. They became good friends and then the Social Worker could move in. Now, there is a Sim named "Social Worker" in the neighborhood.
 * In my game, the social woker took away my toddler and I love when my toddlers cry. It's fun to see them suffer. Its just so much fun :D


 * In my game, I created a family called the Hollycoms. it was 2 boys, Jacob and Joshua and the parents, Andrew and Ashley. On the 2nd day, the kids went to school and the parents went to work. the kids got home earlier than the parents and you can guess what happened, the social worker took them away after about an hour home alone. Ashley had a baby that turned out to be a boy. they named him Jacob, after their (former) oldest son. right now Ashley is trying to get pregnant with her 4th (or 2nd) baby. if it's a boy, that will be their last child, if it's a girl, they'll keep having kids till they get a boy.
 * I was playing my family- the Robson's,two girls (joined) they had 4 adopted kids-3 girls and 1 boy, Isabella,Abigail and Walinda-boy was Joao) three were children and the other about to turn into one. And one of the women cheated and fell pregnant with a boy Carlos, he was about to turn into a toddler. My women didn't come home because of a glitch, the social worker came and took all 5 of my kids. so my ladies were not able to adopt anymore but thats alright, the one that cheated just kept spitting out kids :-) to Don Lothario!
 * In my game, this alien family added a social worker to their family. Good thing the youngest person was a teen.
 * In my game I used cheats to add the Social Worker to Olive Specter's house then made Olive murder her!
 * In my game, one of my Sims married the Social Worker so I changed her name to Anna V. Also, the social worker came to take my twins away but I hadn't exactly left them alone. The mom was at work and the dad was watching the kids, but he had gotten abducted by aliens so the son (a kid) was watching the babies and the social worker came. I tried to get them to grow up but I couldn't do it. So I deleted the Social Worker and killed her several times but she just kept coming back. So I did boolprop testingcheatsenabled true then shift-clicked on the car and caused it to have an error and then I deleted it. Then I moved the whole family out of town and we never saw the Social Workers again.
 * In my game, there was a family of only 2 Sims: a boy (AFAIR his name was Harry) and his uncle Max, who was an elder. At 6 p.m. Max died (because of his age) and Harry was left alone. Of course, the Social Worker came to take Harry, but he had one day left to become a teenager, so I clicked on him and choose the option to grow up. Harry became a teenager, but he was taken by the Social Worker anyway :(