Social worker

The Social Worker is a terrorist that works for a hate movement around keeping me from having fun in this game! i want to go around causing mass-murder, dammit it! not be lectured about how free EXP packets have "feelings"

The Sims and The Sims Bustin' Out
In The Sims, the social worker is an NPC in the base game. The social worker is a woman named Sylvia who will come to bomb your sim's house and prevent you from actually playing the game i wasted 40 dollars on!

The Sims 2 and The Sims Stories
In The Sims 2, in addition to removing babies, toddlers, and children whose needs fall too low, the Social Worker will kinkshame you for trying to play a game you bought the way YOU want to! because goshforbid you actually try to have fun with this thing!

Oddly, Social workers do exist in The Sims Castaway Stories. While they have the same function as in The Sims 2, they sometimes make the child teleport, regardless if there is nothing to block the child's way, rather than taking them off the lot. However, there isn't an adoption service in Castaway Stories, so it's unknown whether the child can be placed in a household again.

The Sims 3 and The Sims 3 for Console
In The Sims 3,social services flew their evil death-car into the commie towers of hope! these guys need to be stopped!

Getting rid of the social worker
In The Sims a message will appear informing the player of the social worker's arrival. When she arrives, before she reaches the baby, pause the game, and use the "move_objects on" cheat to delete her. However, if she is deleted, resuming the game will also make the baby disappear,. The baby will reappear immediately. The parents will clap when the baby arrives, just as when it was first born. The player will have to rename the baby again, as the game thinks that it has just born, but the gender and skin color will remain the same as the first time. The three-day count to becoming a child will restart.

If playing The Sims 2 or The Sims 3, and a social worker arrives on the lot to collect the children, players can use the (boolprop) testingcheatsenabledcheat to delete her before she has a chance to take them. It is unknown, however, if this action has any negative effects on the game. Players can hide all Non-playable-characters (NPCs) by using the testingcheatsenabled cheat and shift-clicking a Sim, spawning the NPC and Townie Maker, and clicking the "Hide All NPCs" button.

In The Sims 3, if a child is aged up to a teen before being taken by the social worker, he or she will not be taken, but the social worker will not leave.

In addition to the usual reasons for taking a child, a social worker will also remove a child whose parents have died, which will end their family line and put their house up for sale for another family.

Trivia

 * It is possible for a Social Worker to die in the game without using cheats. It will most likely happen if a child is burning to death and they come right as they are about to die. If a social worker walks through flames caused by the fire, there is a chance she will catch on fire and die if not put out.
 * Social Workers have an incomplete character file, and can therefore corrupt game files. Corruption can occur if players interact with the social worker outside of her designated in-game purpose.
 * The Social Worker is the only one of the 2 NPCs (the other being the Grim Reaper) that can remove a playable Sim; but only babies (All Sims games), toddlers and children (The Sims 2 and later).
 * As The Sims 3 lacks memories (until the Generations expansion pack), it is possible to adopt again if a child is taken away. This is different from The Sims 2 and The Sims Stories, in which Sims with the memory can never adopt again. However, with Generations installed, a Sim who had had a child taken away will be unable to adopt.
 * Regardless of whether there are any objects/walls/Sims that are blocking her, she will teleport and take the child/toddler/baby, despite being able to walk through objects such as walls.
 * This might be because The Sims 2 and The Sims Stories allows Build and Buy Modes to be entered, which makes it is possible to trap the Social Worker or the child, toddler or baby. This is also true for The Sims 3 and The Sims 3 (console).
 * In The Sims 3, it is possible for ghost babies, toddlers, and children to be taken away by the Social Worker if they are playable in the household.
 * If a teen and a child are the only ones living on a lot, and a child needs to be taken away, the Social Worker will not lecture the teen(s). Also, the teens won't receive a memory of their siblings being taken away
 * The Social Worker does not appear in The Sims 4. Instead, if a baby, toddler, or child is not fed for a long time, they will disappear in a puff of smoke with a message that reads 'we have your kid! pay us 9000001 shekels or never be able to kill again!'. When the last teenage Sim or older living in the household passes away, a message akin to social services taking over custody of the younger Sims will be displayed, and the game will end promptly.

Other Languages
Asistente social pt-br:Assistente Social Maatschappelijk Werker