Family (aspiration)

Family

A family brunch

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Sims with the Family Aspiration long to be part of a big, happy family. They need "Quality Time" with family members, and lots of meaningful interactions with all the branches of their family tree. Keep their Aspiration Meters overflowing with familial bliss, and they'll live long and "fruitful" lives.

Family is an Aspiration in The Sims 2. Family Sims aspire to get married and have children, as well as having "Quality Time" with their family members. Starting as a teenager, Sims already want to fall in love and go steady with their lover. The next important phase for Family Sims is in Young Adult or Adult: to get engaged and married. After that, they will usually want to have many babies. Elders will want grandchilden.

As the Sims' family is growing, they will want their grownup children to get engaged and married, and eventually want to see their grandchildren. Family Sims will love to spend their quality time in Winter, since it's the time to spend with family. Also, they want to constantly keep pets.

Aspiration Monikers

Level	Teen	Adult	Elder
Platinum	Shining Example	Family Rock	Town Father / Town Mother
Gold	Pride and Joy	Role Model	Patriarch / Matriarch
High Green	Good Son / Darling Daughter	Good Influence	Sire / Matron
Low Green	Routine Relative	Solid Provider	Sweet Old Coot
Low Red	Bad Seed	Brood Bungler	Grumpy Gramps / Grumpy Grams
Deep Red	Family Flunk Out	Black Sheep	Creepy Crank / Creepy Crone

Wants & Fears

Wants

Potty Train Sim Teach Sim to Walk Teach Sim to talk Go Steady Have very first kiss Have a baby Adopt a child Obtain a pet Teach Sim to walk Teach Sim to talk Potty Train Sim Have 10 Children Get Married

Get Engaged Fall in Love Child is an overachiever Child gets A+ on report card Help Child with Homework Relative Gets Married Relative Gets Engaged Get a grandchild Have # grandchildren Get a New Relative

Fears

Get rejected for first kiss Get rejected for Go Steady Sim grows up badly Get left at the altar Death of Sim Break up

Relative dies Relative breaks up Be old and never married Be old and childless Die alone Pet is removed Pet runs away

Notes

Lifetime Wants

Become Captain Hero Have 6 grandchildren Marry off 6 children Reach Golden Anniversary Graduate 3 Children from College Raise 20 Puppies or Kittens

Become Education Minister

Aspiration Desperation

Love Flour Sack Baby

Family Sims have high-impact fears about relatives dying, losing friends and being rejected for interactions by their children or grandchildren. Sims who reach aspiration desperation will pull out a sack of flour with a face painted on it and will begin to rock and cuddle it, as if it was a baby.

Freetime Aspiration Benefits

Level 1 - Grandma's Comfort Soup

Level 2 - Slower Fun and Comfort Motive Decay

Level 3 - Plead with social worker

Level 4 - Super Fertility

Career Paths

Base game

• Law Enforcement

The Sims 2: Seasons

• Education

The Sims 2: Pets (console)

• Medicine

Premade Sims With Aspiration

For a complete list, see Category:Sims with the Family aspiration.

Tips & Tricks

• It is not recommended to pair a Romance Sim with a Family Sim, because their wants will clash, since Romance Sims fear commitments.
• If one wants to pair a Family Sim with someone that doesn't also have the Family aspiration, the easiest are a Fortune Sim or a Knowledge Sim, since their wants won't clash very easily. Fortune Sims make particularly good partners for Family Sims, as their desire to earn raises and promotions will leave their spouses free to be homemakers and stay-at-home parents. Knowledge Sims make good co-parents for Family Sims, as they roll wants to teach toddler skills and study skills more frequently than most other aspirations.
• You should create a family Sim married or at least with one (or more) children, because most of the family Sims' lifetime want is "marry off six children" (or "have six grandchildren") and that is something very hard to achieve, so you have to make a lot of children, and fast. Also recommended is to adopt children when they are children and not babies or toddlers.
• Sometimes Family Sims get "Have a Child" as both a want and a fear. It's unknown why this happens, though it may be because they have just had a child and don't want the stress of another even though the aspiration makes them want one. Still, having another child is worth a net 3,000 ASP.
• When returning from work, Family Sims will occasionally launch into an "I'm home!" animation, even if no one else is home. This can be stopped by canceling the "At Work" icon in the Sim's action queue, but if it is not canceled, it will run for about 30 game minutes. There is a mod by Cyjon that will suppress this.
• Townies and NPCs with the zodiac sign of Aquarius or Cancer generally have this aspiration.
• Having the Family aspiration may not prevent Sims from wanting to flirt with another Sim, even if the former is already in a relationship.