Social worker

Social worker

Sylvia the Social Worker and a baby.

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

The social worker warning from The Sims.

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!

Warning

Social workers do not have a complete character file, and thus should not be interacted with in any way outside of their in-game designated purposes. This includes attempting to turn her into a supernatural creature, such as a vampire, a werewolf or a witch. Doing so will corrupt neighborhood files. A Social Worker may be spawned as a blind date through the Gypsy Matchmaker. If this happens, delete the social worker using the moveobjects cheat, or through testingcheatsenabled, and do NOT interact with her.

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.

Pre-made Social Workers

Pleasantview Social Workers

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Strangetown Social Workers

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Veronaville Social Workers

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Riverblossom Hills Social Workers

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Desiderata Valley Social Workers

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Belladonna Cove Social Workers

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Four Corners Social Workers

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Four Corners Social Workers (Free Play)

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Bitville Social Workers

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Tutorial Social Workers

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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!

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  Alessandra Thistle (Sunset Valley)

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  Linda Duran (Sunset Valley)

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  Jake Roland (Sunset Valley)

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  Casper Santos (Sunset valley)

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  Bessie Biller (Riverview)

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  Lana Rodriguez (Riverview)

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  Carl Strummer (Riverview)

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  Mark Wagner (Riverview)

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

Language
English	Social Worker
Brazilian Portuguese	Assistente Social
Chinese (Simplified)	社会工作者
Chinese (Traditional)	社工人員
Czech	Sociální pracovník
Danish	Socialarbejder
Dutch	Maatschappelijk werker
European Portuguese	Assistente Social
Finnish	Sosiaalityöntekijä
French	Travailleur social
German	Sozialarbeiter
Greek	Κοινωνικός λειτουργός
Hebrew	עובדת סוציאלית
Italian	Assistente sociale
Japanese	社会福祉指導員
Korean	복지국 직원
Norwegian	Sosialarbeider
Polish	Opieka społeczna
Romanian	Asistent social
Russian	Социальный работник
Spanish	Asistente social
Swedish	Socialarbetare
Thai	นักสังคมสงเคราะห์
Vietnamese	Nhân viên xã hội