User blog comment:Nikel23/The Sims 4 - no story progression/@comment-1519608-20140702163239/@comment-11491781-20140728174244

Yup, at least in TS3 they had little clone-spawns of their own. (but apparently no new marriages or kids from 2 sims instead of just 1- really, i'm not getting any non-cloned baby's anymore...)