simsconfessions:

I wish EA would include same-sex and more racially/ethnically mixed couples and families. The world is becoming more diverse, and it would be nice if the game could actually reflect that fact.

While I do agree with this statement, I would like to point out that the good thing about this game is that you can make your Sims whatever you want.

In my Tickian legacy game on Sims 3, Mom and Dad are a mixed couple, and there are 7 children, including Lombardo, in what will be the first gen.  So far, as the others are too young to determine, there are two children exclusively attracted to the same sex.  

In Life as a (La)Rose, Rinoa LaRose is a lesbian.  Her parents are an interracial couple as well.

I tend to make my families interracial, or put them in interracial relationships because I, too, am in one outside the Sims world.  Like Rinoa and Lombardo, my daughter is biracial.  If EA won’t add a little diversity, which is very likely that they won’t, the best thing about it is that WE CAN.  And we can even share this with the simblr community.