Shear family
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| Description | |
| Dylan's preference for wearing suits might be the scandal of the century, but she doesn't mind. Audrey desperately wants a child, and now science has made it possible. What impact will a child have on their lives? | |
| Name | Shear family |
| Members | Dylan Shear, Audrey Shear, Charlie Shear |
| Number of generations | 2 generations |
| Lot | 55 Sunburst Street |
| Funds | §5,000 |
| Difficulty level | 
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| Game | The Sims 3 Store
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| Playability | Playable |
| World | Roaring Heights |
The Shear family is a pre-made family from the downloadable neighborhood of Roaring Heights, available on The Sims 3 Store. It consists of the same-sex couple Dylan and Audrey Shear, and their son Charlie. This family is the first openly same-sex couple in the franchise to date and the only one in The Sims 3. The rest were added in The Sims 4 and its various content packs.
The mention in the family bio of "science mak[ing] it possible" for Audrey and Dylan to have a baby together may be a reference to popular mods for The Sims 2 and The Sims 3 that allow same-sex couples to have children who are the biological offspring of both or the hospital in The Sims 3: Into the Future that allows the mixing of DNA of same-sex couples to create a biological offspring. Indeed, Charlie seems like he may have genetics from both parents, with a skin-tone midway between Audrey's and Dylan's, as would be usual for a biological child in The Sims 3. However, this is still not actually possible in-game, and for the couple to have more children it is necessary to use mods or to have them adopt.
Since Audrey is Family-Oriented it is likely that she will want to have more children; this is even hinted at in-game, since next door to Charlie's bedroom (a child's bedroom with blue decor) is a room with pink furnishings containing a crib, likely indicating that the Shears are planning to try for a girl sometime in the future. There are also toddler toys and books and a high chair elsewhere in the house, even though Charlie is too old to use these objects, further hinting that the couple plan to have another child.
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Trivia
- The two could be references to Katharine Hepburn and Audrey Hepburn.