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Thornton & Hope are hopeful adoptive parents from Virginia waiting to adopt a baby.

If you are pregnant and considering placing your child for adoption, please read the following Dear Birthmother Letter.

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Adoption in Progress.

Intro to Us; Thornton and Hope First off Thank you for looking at our profile. This is a brave act of love you are making for your child. We feel honored that you are considering placing him/her with us. We have both waited so long to have a little one in our lives. As you have already read we are Thornton and Hope White. Thornton is 46 a I (Hope) is 40. We have been married for 3 years. We were both married previously without having children of our own. Thornton did have 2 step children for 8 years, and I have worked with kids for 18 years. We came to adoption because for whatever reason, God has not given us biological children. We feel this will be a great fit to start our family.
Thornton works as a commercial property chief operations building engineer. I am a Respiratory Therapist working in a small home care company, and I have been a Youth Minister for the past 18 years.
Along with our jobs, we also are involved with the boy scouts and girl scouts as volunteers. We do a lot of out door activities together and with family. We love taking vacations with extended family and friends.

Family We live in an established neighborhood in a 3 bedroom, brick ranch with a huge fenced in back yard. At the moment we have 2 daucshunds. Casey is 14 and Zoe is 12. They love kids. If you don't watch Casey, she will try to her best to sleep with the baby. Putting babies on the floor around Casey is fine, but she will give them way too many kisses.
Thornton has 1 brother who is 17 years younger than he is. We see him when we can and talk to him often. He lives in South West Virginia. Thornton's Mom lives in Texas. We don't see her very often and talk to her maybe once a month. Thornton's father died in 2005. They were very close and saw each other daily. His parents were divorced before his father's death.
I have 1 brother who I see about once a month and talk to about twice a week. My parents are still happily married. I talk with them at least once a week and see them at least once a month. They all live in North Carolina. We are very close. As you have read before we also take vacations together and do lots of family activies together. Both of my parents are now retired and very active.
Our family as a whole can not wait for the first grandchild (on either side). This child will be loved beyond the stars and moon.

Expectations I know there is a lot of anxiety involved with adopting a child, for both of us. We want to assure you that your child will know who you are, and what a wonderful gift you have given to us. Family is very important. I want our child to know where they come from, who they look like and for them to have no doubt they were loved and not "thrown away".
As far as contact, we would like to discuss that with you. The least amount of contact would be letters/email and pictures. Not only from us, but from you too. I think your child would like to know how his/her birth mom is doing.
We also hope that you would be available for contact later in life when they have questions that I just can not answer.
You don't have to be born into a family for the people around you to be family.

A Thank you I can only imagine how scared you are and worried if you are making the right decision. For us heartbreak is no stranger. We have gone through fertility treatments with dissapointments, and had sleepless nights because of those dissapointments.
The one thing that we can promise to you is this: Your child will be loved, have all of their needs met, be educated, and supported in their journey in life.
Thank you for loving your child so very much, that you would consider allowing us to help them through their life's journey.