I agree with Empirate on this one. I have left any family member with a single management point in cities to rot and in some campaigns it went badly but now with seleucia, I have a ton of money coming in and my govenors aren't corrupt, but instead I have a guy with the highest management rating I have ever seen.
I don't know why this happened. My diplomats have walked all the way from Susa to Spain and haven't become anymore adept at squeezing money from people or getting the romans to ally with me.

in relation to adoptees and M.O.T.H's, For Seleucia, I have produced about 6 altogether, and I'm not that far into the game. For carthage it was the same, I did have a lot of offspring but my Captains were regularly beating bigger armies easily so I had good generals popping up all over the place.

**** - > GG
I do remember literally saving the career of a young Julii faction member by reassigning him to a different city after he started developing a drinking problem.
That hilarious. Fair enough, If i ever developed a drinking problem I'd like an intervention as well.