Adoption

**Adoption** is a way to get children without needing to get pregnant. The child can be from 1 to 17 years old and are given a random name and age. After adopting, the player can choose whether to keep the child's surname or change it to their surname. Female characters can still have the next-generation child use her surname if they were adopted and she chose to change their surname to hers. If an adopted child was adopted after biological children, they will appear under those children even if they are older. Adopted children of royal parents will not claim a title as they are not born into royalty.

It is possible to adopt a child if your partner has a pregnancy with another person by cheating on your character or by a threesome. When a character adopts, their child will be referred to as an "Adopted Son" or "Adopted Daughter". When a character has a new generation, if your character is a sibling of an adopted character, the adopted sibling will be referred as "Adopted Brother" or "Adopted Sister". Following the September 2019 update. If you are born. It will be in "Adopted Brother" or "Adopted Sister". Following the November 2019 update, adoption scenarios may be shown randomly. Also, you can now adopt a child up to 17 years old. Previously, the maximum age was 7.

In March 2020, Adoption has been overhauled for iOS, allowing for foreign children to adopt. These children or teenagers now have a selection, with their own Stats, cost, appearance, country of origin, and reason why their birth parent(s) could not raise them. They will have behavior as a stat, and a kid with a lower behaviors stat are more likely to trigger 'behavior' events where they do something not good.

## Reasons for Rejection

A player's adoption request can be rejected if the player is too young (20-), too old (71+), has no house, poor finances, no job, a criminal record, and or too many children already. If a player has had 5+ children, the adoption center will reject the request under "Unspecified", even if fewer than 5 are alive and/or some were adopted out. If a couple has 4 children and pregnant with the 5th, the adoption center will still allow adoption, assuming the character fits all other requirements.

## Orphanage

If your character is a child, there is a way to end up in an orphanage. After both of your parents die, or for other reasons are unable to raise you, you will be brought to the orphanage. A character in the orphanage will usually have worse stats than a character with parents. An orphan character’s happiness, health, and even to a certain degree grades are all dependent on the “love” stat present in the orphanage menu.

## Possible Reasons for Adoption

This is a list of the possible reasons why this children is adopted out from their parent(s). The reasons currently don't affect the gameplay, although it seems that children whose parent(s) have bad behaviors such as drug additions or being unfit teens often have one or more stats being low (citation needed).

* Their birth parent(s) died in a fire/natural disaster/bar fight/combat/a car crash/a plane crash/a motorcycle accident/a rare infectious disease/a shootout/a terrorist attack.
* Their birth parent(s) were unfit parents/unfit teens.
* Their birth parent(s) had serious financial or health problems.
* They were abandoned by their birth parents, sometimes due to bad behaviors or unpleasant physical appeareances.
* Their birth parent(s) couldn't pocess a baby for religious reasons.
* Their birth parent(s) were imprisoned.
* Their birth parent(s) had serious drug additions.
* Their birth parent(s) were in rehab.
* Their birth parent(s) were neglectful or abusive.
* Their birth parent(s) were mentally unstable.
* They were found on the doorstep of a fire station.

## Other Reasons

Sometimes, in an adoption event, there might also be different reasons, such as the birth parent did not want a girl (usually from countries like China) or dropping them from above into the player's hand. Some character’s journal also states that they were put up for adoption and adopted for different reasons, and some of them are actually very crazy and funny, such as the birth parents couldn’t stand that they are a fan of some famous figure.