I recently
acquired The Sims 2 after reading all the hub-bub about it. It's very similar to the first one except for my computer doesn't do so good in the fastest time mode. It's all 3d and such and people can do a lot more stuff too. I created (randomly) the Robertson household with Scott and Amanda, who while having the same last name weren't married from the get go, so I had to get them all loving each other and then married. They had a child named Tookie, and then poor Scott died (from the flu) and severe unhappiness due to not having enough time with work and the brat. Grief stricken Amanda turned to the shower repairwoman, an older woman with white hair named Daisy for some loving, the repairwoman eventually moved in, but not before A social worker came and took Tookie away (because there was only one bed in the house and it was often occupied by Amanda and Daisy, and poor Tookie had to sleep (starving) on the couch). I think the hungry part is what got Tookie taken away. I'm not quite sure how to get the child back. Also the nanny died after getting trapped in Scott's mausoleum in the front yard, which was subsequently torn down. Scott and the Nanny's ghost still haunt the homestead.