Cheat to spawn a family member

[bovi]

I would hardly ever take my generals out of the towns because I didn't want teh stupid AI building big useless unit armies in the AI towns

There's an easier way to do this. When the settlement is automanaged, uncheck the recruitment checkbox on the settlement overview. You could also uncheck the construction one, then the manager would only govern tax level. Somewhat poorly though, so you still have to check each turn on the town list that no cities are unhappy.