Family (aspiration)
The Family aspiration is commonly known for its easiness to fulfill wants. Sims with this aspiration aspire to get married and have children, and thrive on spending time with their family members.
Premade Sims With Aspiration
Pleasantview
Strangetown
Teenagers
Wants
- Potty Train Sim
- Teach Sim to Walk
- Teach Sim to talk
- Go Steady
- Have very first kiss
Fears
- Get rejected for first kiss
- Get rejected for Go Steady
- Sim grows up badly
Aspiration Meter Level
- Platinum: Shining Example
- Gold: Pride and Joy
- Upper Green: Good Son / Darling Daughter
- Lower Green: Routine Relative
- Mild Red: Bad Seed
- Lower Red: Family Flunk Out
Adults
Wants
- Have a baby
- Teach Sim to walk
- Teach Sim to talk
- Potty Train Sim
Fears
- Have a baby
- Sim grows up badly
Aspiration Meter Level
- Platinum: Family Rock
- Gold: Role Model
- Upper Green: Good Influence
- Lower Green: Solid Provider
- Mild Red: Brood Bungler
- Deep Red: Black Sheep
Elders
Wants
- Relative Gets Married
- Relative Gets Engaged
- Reach Golden Anniversary
- Get a grandchild
- Have # grandchildren
Fears
- Relative breaks up
- Die alone
Aspiration Meter Level
- Platinum: Town Father / Town Mother
- Gold: Patriarch / Matriarch
- High Green: Sire / Matron
- Low Green: Sweet Old Coot
- Low Red: Grumpy Gramps / Grumpy Grams
- High Red: Creepy Crank / Creepy Crone
Lifetime Wants
Aspiration Desperations
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
Careers
Huge Wants
Teenager
- First Kiss
- Go Steady
Adult
- Have 10 Children (+15,000 aspiration)
- Have a Baby (+8,000 aspiration)
- Get Married (+8,000 aspiration)
- Get Engaged (+ 7,000 aspiration)
- Fall in Love (+5,000 aspiration)
- Child is an overacheiver (+5,000 aspiration)
- Child gets A+ on report card (+4,000 aspiration)
- Help Child with Homework (+3,500 aspiration)
Elder
- Have 20 Grandchildren (+22,000 aspiration)
- Get a Grandchild (+8,000 aspration)
- Have Golden Anniversery
Tips & Tricks
- Never, ever pair a Romance Sim with a Family Sim, as their wants will clash. - Edit: I paired my Family Sim with a Romance Sim, and my Romance Sim, although still having the Romance Aspiration, had all his wants to do with the other Sim. So, I guess it depends on how good the relationship between the Sims is.
- If one wants to pair a Family Sim with another, the easiest are a Fortune Sim or a Knowledge sim, since their wants won't clash very easily.
- 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" (unless you create the Sim elder, and then it will be "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.
- many people on the sims 2 do not know that if a member of your relative dies, this is not commonly a fear