Family (aspiration)

Family (aspiration)

A wedding party.

Sims with the Family aspiration aspire to get married and have children, and thrive on spending time with their family members. In the base game, this may be the most common aspiration, hence the long list below of base game Sims, and is chosen by many players.

Meter Levels

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
High 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 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 Get Promoted Relative Gets Married Relative Gets Engaged Reach Golden Anniversary Get a grandchild Have # grandchildren

Fears

Get rejected for first kiss Get rejected for Go Steady Sim grows up badly Sim dies

Sim grows up badly Death of sim Get demoted Get left at the altar

Break up Relative breaks up Die alone

Lifetime Wants

Base Game

• Become Captain Hero
• Have 6 grandchildren
• Marry off 6 children
• Reach Golden Anniversary

University

• Graduate 3 Children from College

Pets

• Raise 20 Puppies or Kittens
• Have 6 Pets Reach Top Career Level;

Seasons

• Become Education Minister

Freetime

• Become World Class Ballet Dancer
• Become Head of SCIA
• Become Hand of Poseidon

Aspiration Desperations

A desperate housewife

Family Sims have high-impact fears over relatives dying, losing friends and to be rejected to have interactions with 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 like 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

Careers

• Law Enforcement
• Education (Seasons)
• Dance (Freetime)
• Intelligence (Freetime)
• Oceanography (Freetime)

Premade Sims With Aspiration

For a complete list, see Category:Family Sims.

Tips & Tricks

• It is not recommended to pair a Romance Sim with a Family Sim, as their wants will clash.
• 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" on both wants and fears. It's unknown why this happens (probably because they have just had a child and don't want the stress of another but the aspiration makes them want one) but you still get 3,000 ASP out of it.