Hey! First challenge after a bit of a hiatus from TS3, I've had other games to be addicted to for most of this month. I thought I'd post a new challenge to celebrate mah birthday. *Dances around room* Alright, off of that subject, I'm going to get started with this. Meet my new challenge.... THE FOSTER FAMILY!!!!
PS I am aware that there is a challenge that involves a foster child, but I read it through and it is very different from this.

Backstory: (father's POV) You lived with your family for years, until you reached the age of 9. You had already realized how awful your family was and knew you wanted to get away. You pretended to go to sleep one night while your abusive, alchoholic, druggy parents went to sleep. Once they crashed in bed you snuck in and killed them, knowing it was the only way to get away forever, and never have to go back. Your parents had spent all of their money on their addictions, leaving you with none of the medications you had had to take since you were a baby. Instead, the always bought illegal meds they shouldn't take, and other things. You decided that was the easiest way to kill them. While they slept, or more like they were so out of it they couldn't do anything but swallow and breathe (sadly), you popped nearly an entire bottle of their illegal pills into each of their mouths one by one. (You always understood what could happen) They eventually did pass and you placed the near empty bottles, along with all the booze and drugs on the bed beside them. Only after you killed them and went into the living room to call 911 for them to declare them dead and send you away, did you realize what you did. You broke down as they sent you to the orphanage. After some time you met another girl, and you were very happy with her. Of course she doesn't know what you did. You also never lost it since because you had all of the meds you needed and more in case something were to happen. Once you were of age and left the orphanage you proposed and you went on to live together. Your new wife wanted to keep kids from going into an orphanage for long, so you became a foster family. Only then did you tell her what was wrong with you, what you did, and why you need all of those meds.
Yes, I know this is very dark, but I thought it helped make the story up. idk why.

Create A Family: Make the father, he may only have 3 traits you choose, (unless he earns one through the university stuff). He can have any traits but must have those two blank trait slots (you'll understand later) He can also look any way you please, just however you picture him.
Make the wife, she must be nurturing (generations)/ family oriented, or both. She has all her traits filled.
Make 2 children, these are their biological twins. Of course, they must look the same if you made them of the same gender. If different genders, make them have the same hair color & eyes etc.
You may have 2 pets, no breeding or having more than that unless one is about to die. (well into being an elder, since it's usually hard to tell how long you have left)

Create A House: Your house may only be 1 level, and you can only build it with 50,000 simoleons. That's all you get to furnish it and build it, using a blank lot, no pre-made lots allowed. (sorry, trust me, I suck at building cool stuff but too bad XD) As you earn money you can upgrade but we'll get that later too. Other than the money restriction you have free-range for your creativity to flow into this house buildy project thingy.

Playing The Challenge/Rules: Finally, the stuff that matters the most! Let's start with rules before we get into it. (These are mainly the rules for the family, not the gamer.) PS I know it's a lot, but it will make it all the more challenging. Feel free to change it if you want, these challenges are really just outlines
1) It is a family rule that teens may not date their interests until the teen and their interest have met and befriended eachother's parents. (Or at least 1)
2) Curfews for teens is 8:00, children is 6:00 unless with an older sibling (sibling must be teen! Not an older child!) There will be a roll panel below so if they miss curfew check below.
3) NO CHEATS OR MODS, besides the occasional resetsim or tesingcheats to delete something you can't find a way to get rid of. *Unless otherwise stated*
4) Babies must never dip into red for over 1 sim hour or they will be taken to a new foster family, only that one though (use edit town to switch it to a different household).
5) Toddlers must learn all their skills
6) Children must learn at least 1 skill (or work on one such as cooking or handiness up to lvl 3/master with this) by the time they age into a teen.
7) Children and Teens must have A's and B's in school, once possible.
8) The dad must never have any sort of job, he has to take care of the kids.
9) The mom may only have a lower paying position. If she makes it past the 4th level of her job, she must switch to a new one.
10) No biological children past the first twins in CAS. You can woohoo and all that stuff but no pregnancies!
11) Whenever possible the parents must adopt a new child.
12) YA children must move out ASAP. If you are trying to have them start a family, finish up and move them out.
13) You must use the familyfunds cheat to remove 750 simoleons weekly from your household. Keep that in mind when you're building! You get no extra money!
14) Teens may have part-time jobs, and children may sell baked goods for extra funds.
15) You must celebrate all holidays with a party.
16) If a child or teen becomes best friends with a YA or A and all members of that other household, the child may be sent to that family.
One last thing, if you ever have under 750 simoleons, you must add the unstable and insane traits, if you don't have unstable, add neurotic. You are unable to afford his meds! Take away these traits as soon as the 750 is paid. (he has some very expensive meds...

ROLLS: Getting caught after curfew, (no need to roll if parents are in first room or yard, other siblings don't care) children - 1-10 scale...
1-2, you slipped by, your family too busy with some other issue.
3-6, you weren't their biggest concern, you just got sent to your room for the night
7-10, They were worried sick!, you were grounded and must come home right after school everyday, and no going out on weekend, (5 days of grounding)
Teens - 1-10 scale...
1-2, you slipped by, your family too busy with some other issue.
3-5, you were lectured a minute or and lost your electronics (if you had them) and sent to your room for the rest of the night.
6-7, you were caught trying to sneak in, grounded (see children for details) for 5 days.
8-10, They were worried sick!, you were grounded for 5 days and now must care for the babies and toddlers.
Getting Caught Dating (teen only obviously). You start dating somebody and you are on your home lot or a lot with family. If parents are already in the room, you are already caught (if you do anything romantic, that is) 1-10 scale.
1-4, You're good! They suspect nothing but friendship and you are in the clear.
5-7, They are suspicious, you may do nothing romantic for 3 days to convince them otherwise.
8-10, You're caught! They saw you being very romantic and know you're dating, they aren't happy. You are on babysitting duty until the end of the weekend (if it's any of the days Fri-Sun, you are on babysitting duty for that weekend and the next, just to be fair)

DAILY ROLLS: 1-20
1-3, Thief! delete 2 objects from outside your house or in the first room, and 100 simoleons using familyfunds or buying some trees or something
4-6, Rats. How did rats come along?! Spend 100 simoleons for extermination and delete 10 units of food, starting with cheese.
7, Pregnant? Flip a coin or use number generator 1-2. 1, your oldest teen girl is pregnant, (make her get pregnant with her best guy friend/boyfriend) if this is impossible for you, make the mother get pregnant.
8-10, We won the lottery?! Pretty self explanatory, add 50,000 simoleons using the motherlode cheat.
11-12, Odd Feeling. Your father sim must go to the hospital and stay for some observation for the night (lock him on the lot with something to sleep on and such.)
13-15, Free Roll, pick something or just go with nothing, your choice!
16-18, Sale! 50% off sale at all stores and buisinesses, go crazy and give yourself back half of all money spent that day!
19, Floooooooooooood!!!!! Your house flooded, you must replace everything in any room with a sink or plumbing object.
20, Should you switch? The orphanage calls and says they feel the father is unfit to handle this anymore. Instantly lose them if he is without meds. Roll 1-4, 1-3, you keep all children, 4, you lose all the children, including your own, and you must move them out to a new family and start over. Losing them 3 times and the father must move out, leaving the working mother to care for them, meaning less time at work, less money. Good luck.
If you lost the father, make 19's roll into 19-20 as it wouldn't make any sense.

How to win or lose
I suck at scoring so this is what I do. You win if you raise at least 20 children to YAs. You double win if you did it without losing the father. You win and get a cookie if you did it without ever losing any children. You lose if you lose a toddler or infant 4 times (not including whole family stuff). You double lose if you lose the dad and the infants/toddlers. You lose and give me a cookie if you raise less than 10 children to YAs.
I like cookies

Alright. I think that's about it. I know it's a bit long for my challenges, but oh well, I had a lot of ideas. I hope you enjoy if you got this far!
Wait! I have one thing I forgot to mention, feel free to change some of these things and any of the rules to make your gameplay more fun and interesting, I look forward to seeing your stories and pictures if you choose to post them!

I just started my personal test play of this, I made the Huy family. The set of parents, Cassandra and Gerald, twin boys, Ashton and Anthony, and their horse, who's name I can't remember... I realized some things already that were a bit too simple, so I made sure to edit them and make them a bit better.

I'm actually really into this one o3o Is it cool if I change the story up a wee bit though?

Oh sure! Feel free to change things up as you see fit, I actually look forward to possibly seeing people's takes on it I hope I get to see your story soon!