Waiting Families: Adoption Parent Profiles Ready for Open Adoption

Hi there! We are Jeff and Louis from Portland, Oregon. We started our family three years ago when we adopted our daughter Jacqueline, whom we call Jax for short. We have tremendous respect for your decision to consider adoption. We appreciate you taking the time to read this letter and learn more about us and the dream we and big sister Jax share to expand our family.

Hello!  We are James and Jillian from Morgan Hill, California. We met almost 14 years ago while attending Fresno State University.  We became fast best friends and married in 2008.  From the day we met, we have nurtured a relationship based on love, respect, support, and commitment to each other and our families.  We adopted our son Trent four years ago, and parenting has been the greatest journey that we have been on together, not to mention, it is also a lot of fun!  This is why we can’t wait to grow our family through open adopt

Hi, we are Greg, Suezann, and, Alexa from Hercules, California.
We are excited to expand our family once again through adoption! We are honored and very thankful to have you read our letter. We respect and admire your courage and willingness to consider adoption for your child. Thank you for considering us as potential parents for your baby. You are doing something for us that we cannot do for ourselves. The grace in that act is so beautiful!

Dear Birthmother,

We are Allwyn and Cecille from Alameda, California.  Thank you for taking the time to read about us.  We acknowledge the courage it takes to consider an open adoption, and are grateful that you are considering us to be adoptive parents to your child.

We would love to talk with you!

Allwyn & Cecille

Hi, we’re Jen & Tony. We live in Oakland, California, where we love to be outside — running, biking, or drinking coffee in the sunshine on our deck. Jen runs operations at a tech startup in San Francisco. Tony, a pastry chef, will be a stay-at-home dad.
Adoption runs in our family — Tony’s mom was adopted — and should you decide adoption is best for you and your baby, we’d love to welcome you both into our family.

Hello! My name is Laura, and I live in San Francisco, California, along with my wonderful son John (4 years old) and our two dogs, Shasta and Chuck. We live in a beautiful Victorian home in the center of the city, surrounded on all sides by parks, playgrounds, and loving neighbors. I work part-time from home and love being able to provide for my family while also being home to nurture and enjoy them. Motherhood has been a dream come true for me. John is joyful, creative, passionate and compassionate, with a wild imagination and a s

Hello, thank you for taking the time to learn more about us. We are Angela and Jeremy from San Francisco California. We are both in our mid-thirties, and have been happily married for almost 10 years. We are both very excited to start our family and have discussed adoption since early in our relationship. If a home filled with laughter, learning, and love, with both parents working from home, is your dream for your child, we would be honored to be considered by you! We hope to learn more about you and we hope to meet you soon!

Hi! Our names are Laurel and Andy. We are a happily married couple who live in San Francisco, California, and spend a lot of time at our second home in the redwood forest and countryside nearby. We are both artists who work from home, and we look forward to being stay-at-home parents together.

Thank you for reading our letter and considering us as potential parents to your child. We hope you find the right decision for yourself and your child, whatever that might be. Making this choice either way takes strength and bravery. We

Hello! We are Antoine and Bitania and we want to thank you so much for considering adoption for your baby. We sincerely appreciate that your decision is not an easy one and as Christians, throughout your decision making we hope and pray that God guides you towards the right parents for your child. We want to let you know what respect and admiration we have for you and we feel incredibly honored and blessed to be able to share this journey with you if you so desire us to be the adoptive parents to your baby.

By reading our profi

Hola! We are Jessica and Josh. We know that considering placing your child for adoption must be a very difficult decision, and we are humbled by your courage as you explore options for your life and the life of your child. We too have been humbled by life as we have tried to build our family, and appreciate you considering us to parent your child through open adoption.
Adoption has always been close to our heart - a few close friends have built their families through adoption and we have been so inspired by adoption’s power to tu

Hello from the San Francisco Bay Area. We are Bill and Lori and we are looking forward to hearing from you and getting to learn more about you. We are honored that you are reading this letter to learn more about us. We imagine that this is a difficult decision for you and we want you to know that we appreciate you and your decision to look into open adoption.

Hello, welcome and thank you for reading our story - and maybe becoming part of it!
We are Alexa and Maurice – originally from Germany and today permanently settled and hoping to raise a family in Oakland, California where Alexa will be a stay-at-home mommy.
The decision that you are faced with is one of the most difficult we can imagine. Whatever the circumstances that have brought you to this point, we are grateful for your strength and admire your courage to consider open adoption. We would love to hear your story as well, l

Hello. We are Migle and Russ from Washington, D.C. area.
We admire your courage as you consider adoption for your baby. Deciding who should have the honor of raising your child is a big responsibility. After having difficulty conceiving, adoption was a natural choice for us. Russ was adopted at birth, and he reunited with his bio mom as an adult, so we might know a little about what you are going through. For Russ, his parents, and his bio mom, adoption was a wonderful experience, so we are pursuing open adoption as a way to buil

Hello! We are Anjali and Bronwyn, a married couple in our early 30’s from Berkeley, California! We moved to California from Philadelphia almost two years ago. Anjali is a doctor who also does research, and Bronwyn is a nurse who works on projects to improve mental health care. Our ability to work from home and to set our own hours will allow us to be present and hands-on as first-time parents! We want to acknowledge the difficulty of the decisions you are currently facing. We have so much respect for you as you navigate this proces

Welcome! We are Nicole and Chris from West Sacramento, California.

We chose open adoption based on research and people we have spoken with, both adopted and adoptive parents. We hope choosing the parents for your child gives you peace of mind, and should you choose us we will welcome you into our home. We want you to have the opportunity to see the positive impact your decision has made on us and your child, to know your child in the capacity that is comfortable for us all, and to give your child the benefit of knowing where th

Hi! We're John and Emily, a healthy, active couple in our 30's living in Dublin, California.

Thank you so much for taking the time to get to know us.  We hope our photo profile gives you an idea of what it's like to be a part of our family. Of course, we have lots more to share and would love to get to know you back!

We are excited to start our family through open adoption. We have family and friends who have adopted or who are adopted, so adoption is part of our lives and near and dear to our hearts.

We admire your sel

Hello and thank you for checking out our profile! We are excited and honored to get to know you. We are a quirky, fun-loving couple in our 30s from Napa, CA. Micah is employed full time as a winemaker; Amanda is an artist, and plans on being a stay-at-home mom. We love children and are looking forward to starting our family through open adoption!

Hello! We’re Sherean and Vanessa. Thanks for taking time to know us better!  We live in a small San Francisco Bay Area town beautifully perched between the ocean and forest. In 13 years together, we’ve been blessed to share laughter, tears, and many great adventures. Most significantly, we’ve grown stronger together and as individuals. We are ready to share our blessings with a child.  As you read this, we hope you see a glimpse of how loved and special our child will be.  Moreover, we wish you heartfelt comfort and dignity as you

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We are Jay and Ryan and we believe that love makes a family. We live in beautiful San Francisco, and we are excited to start our own family through an open adoption. Ryan’s grandma was adopted and Jay’s best friends adopted two little ones. We feel humbled to keep this tradition going.

We both come from loving parents that taught us the values of support, trust, love, service, diversity, hard work and respect. We want to pass those values down to our child in a nurturing environment. And, we want to have lots of fun

Hello, I’m Karen from Oakland, California. Thank you for taking the time to get to know a bit about me!
I can imagine that you are at this place because you want the best for your child. To me, that is brave beyond words. I want you to know that I bring a strong commitment to you, and to open adoption as the way to create a family. I want to welcome you into my life, because there can never be too many people to love a child, and there are so many wonderful ways to make a family.
I look forward to learning about you and your dr

Hello! We are Abby and Kate from sunny Oakland, California. We are in our early thirties, have been together for nine years (married for five) and are very much looking forward to starting our family through adoption. Kate is a first grade teacher in Oakland and Abby is a work-at-home librarian for an online school. We sincerely hope that by reading our profile and viewing our photos you will see the love in our lives and all we have to share with you and your baby.

We acknowledge that even just considering adoption is an incre

Hi, we’re Sean and Jeremy.  We are a married couple in our 30’s from San Francisco, California and we are so excited to start our family through adoption!

Thank you for taking the time to read our profile. We’re honored that you would consider us in the decision you are making, and we would love for you to know why it is so meaningful to us. Like many, we have always had a dream that we would one day be parents. Of course, having a biological child that was equal parts of each of us was never an option. Instead, we are both hum

Hi, I’m Ruth from San Francisco, California.  Thank you so much for reading this letter.  I am in awe of you.  I have always, always wanted to be a mother.  There is nothing I want more, and it is because of your courage and openness that it might someday happen.  My extended family has given me a personal connection to adoption, so it means the world to me to build a family through open adoption.  Luckily I also have the financial resources to take time off when my son or daughter arrives and to hire quality help, which I know wil