Waiting Families

We are Catherine and Alex, and we first met on a ski trip in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.  Who would have thought that someone would have to travel 2,000 miles away from home in order to meet the love of their life, only to discover that back home, we lived a mere 10 miles apart.  We have been married for over 3 years and we are thankful every day that we both made that journey out west. 

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Amy and Doug met on the dance floor of a wedding more than 13 years ago. We danced and laughed and fell in love immediately that night. And we’ve been dancing and laughing and falling in love a little more every single day since then. Now we’ve been married for 10 wonderful years and have a 5 year old son, Henry. Read More

We are a happily married couple for 12 years and we come from homes with loving and close-knit families. We both have siblings who have had several children - there are 6 nieces and nephews in our family and we have had years of seeing them grow, sharing laughter and stories with them, and also wishing for children of our own. English Español

I promise your child love, support and every opportunity to develop into a loving and responsible person. English Español

We are grateful for this opportunity to write to you and thank you for considering us in your search for a happy loving home for your child.  We will not pretend to know how you feel, what you are going through or how difficult the decision you make must be.  But, if you decide that we are the parents to whom you entrust your child to, you will become a special person in our lives. Read More

 What seems like such a simple task, putting pen to paper, has never taken on a more important meaning for us ….the potential of a family of our own.  While we will never fully understand what you are going through, we certainly appreciate and respect your strength as you read this letter. 

 

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Thank you so much for taking some time to read our letter. We imagine you are facing one of the most difficult time in your life, deciding what is best for you and your baby. Through this letter, we will try to give you the best possible description of who we are as parents and as a family so you can picture ourselves right.  English Español

Since you’re reading this letter we know that you’re considering making an adoption plan.  This must be such a hard decision--certainly harder than any decision we’ve ever had to make.  We respect and honor you for taking the time to figure out what’s best for your baby.
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We are Emily and Adriano and are very excited to build our family though adoption.

Six years ago we discoverd that we would be unable to get pregnant without the help of a medical treatment called IVF. After many failed attemps to become parents this way we had to come to terms with the reality that it would never happen. It was a sad and difficult thing to face.

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I do appreciate that this is a very difficult decision for you to place your baby in another persons care.  I understand that you want to make the best possible plan for your baby. English Español

We are Kelly and Neil, and we’ve been best friends since we met in photography school in 2004, together as a couple since 2005, and married since 2008. Kelly is a photographer and Neil works as a photo editor at a magazine. Kelly is warm and kind, has a lively and spontaneous personality, and is also extremely practical and organized. Neil is calm, thoughtful, and patient, and also has a great sense of humor. We love being married to one another — we support each other, complement each other’s strengths, and feel lucky to have found one another and made a life together. English Español

We realize this must be a difficult time for you, and wish you the best of luck with your decision whatever it may be. If we are lucky enough to be chosen by a birth parent to raise their child, we will be the best parents we can possibly be.

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We imagine that you have many tough decisions ahead of you. If you choose adoption, we hope you will find peace knowing that the baby is loved unconditionally and thriving. Thank you so much for giving us this opportunity to introduce ourselves. Our names are Laura and David.  We met in 2006 and have been happily married since 2009.  Laura is loving, smart, outgoing, and energetic.  David has a great sense of humor, and is warm, thoughtful, and sincere.  Together, we enjoy an active lifestyle riding our matching red bikes, running in local 5K races, frequent trips to Manhattan, traveling, entertaining friends and family at our home, taking ballroom dancing lessons, and making each other laugh until we cry. Our latest project has been starting a blog on home entertaining combining David’s computer skills with Laura’s party planning ideas and recipes. Read More

Our names are Leslie and Anthony, and we have been married for 12 years. We have been trying to start a family together and have turned to adoption to make that happen.

It seems funny to write a letter in the first-person plural, as if we were royalty or something; after all, we don’t always think alike. But on this issue we speak with one voice. We want a child very much and will do everything we can to provide him or her with a loving home.

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Maria is a Professor at New York University, and she will take a semester off to care for the new baby. Mario is a freelance Spanish interpreter, and he is usually hired on a day-to-day or week-to-week basis, so he can take time off to care for the baby, as well, for as long as necessary. After we return to work, our babysitter Carmelina, will take care of the baby. Carmelina is from Guatemala and she has been with us since Sebastian was a year old. Sebastian and Sabrina adore her, and we trust her one hundred percent.

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Thank you for taking the time to learn about us. We are looking forward to adoption to start our family. Children are a gift from God- Psalm 127:3- we very much believe this. You are making a great sacrifice of love for your baby and we are thankful. English Español

We are a married same-sex couple that has been together for over ten years in a relationship that is solid, supportive and loving. We enjoy time together, supporting each other as individuals and as a couple. Our role as parents has strengthened our commitment to each other and we've always planned to grow our family through adoption. Read More

We are Rich and Jess and we want to thank for taking the time to consider adoption. We wish you strength, peace and love on this journey.

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We are Robbi & Ray, a married couple living in New York City, and appreciate the time you are taking to learn more about our family.
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Our names are Vanessa and Roger, we are two loving, nurturing and generous people who are hoping and praying to adopt a child. We met at our church in downtown Brooklyn 4 years ago. We had both been waiting a long time for the right person to come along, and now we’re firm believers in the expression ‘good things come to those who wait.’  Before getting to know each other we had seen each other around our church and we had both noticed qualities in each other that we were attracted to. 

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We realize that your decision is a difficult one.  We hope that you can take some comfort in knowing that we will love, protect and cherish your baby just as we have cherished our time with Hope. Hope is reading and writing and enjoying life and she is looking forward to being a big sister. English Español

We have never met, but we hope to have the opportunity to get to know you. It is amazing to think that although we are now strangers, we may share a special relationship in the years to come. English Español

We are so happy you are reading this letter! Thank you for considering us. We imagine this could be one of the most difficult choices you have ever faced. We are in awe of your strength. By way of these words, we want to give you an idea of who we are and of our life together.

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Becoming parents has brought more joy into our lives than we ever imagined, and we can’t wait to add another child to our happy family. We are eager to provide a loving, secure and stable home and the good life that you desire for your baby.  English Español

Thank you very much for reading our letter and for considering us as possible adoptive parents for your precious baby. We would welcome the chance to meet you and learn about you and your dreams for your child.

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We met online and fell in love with one another between sweet smiles, never ending walks in Prospect Park and long conversations about classical music. Our lives became one, and we committed to our love right away. English Español

We’re very grateful that you’re considering creating an adoption plan for your child. We know choosing the right family is an important and difficult decision; hopefully, we’ll be able to give you some sense of what your child’s life with us would look like. Read More

As a couple, we have always known we wanted to create our family through adoption. Adopting Emma has confirmed that it doesn’t make a difference to us if our children are biological or adopted, we love them with all our heart.

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When we realized we would not be able to have children of our own, we learned about open adoption. We embraced this concept because we feel that it is important for the child to have a strong sense of identity, by knowing his or her roots. We want our child to grow up to be strong and confident, secure in the knowledge that he or she will always be loved. English Español

We met eight years ago in Brooklyn and on one of our very first dates we expressed to each other how much we wanted to raise children one day and how important it was for us to have a family. This desire was one of the things that drew us to each other and now keeps our bond strong. We have been inseparable from the beginning! It didn't take long for us to realize that we wanted to spend our lives together, and last year, we got married surrounded by our friends and family. English Español