Loving family in New York City
looking to adopt a baby
from anywhere in the United States.

Both of us have prioritized building deep and formative relationships over the course of our lives and we are lucky to have a wide group of blood family and friends who are chosen family, both locally and in cities all across the country! Before the pandemic, we visited and traveled with friends and loved hosting family and friends for meals, birthday celebrations, movie nights, and holiday observances in our home — and we have returned to these activities little by little as it has seemed safe to do so. We can’t wait to be fully able to host gatherings and parties but we’ve been grateful to be lucky enough to have a backyard for outdoor socializing and to live in a borough full of parks and playgrounds as well as beaches and boardwalks, zoos, and public gardens.

Many of our dearest friends and relatives have children of their own — including several who are adoptees — and they have been so excited to love and get to know Esperanza and are thrilled at the prospect of welcoming any child we adopt through this current process into their lives and into our community. They have been deeply committed to staying supportive of us as parents and have connected their children to our daughter as playmates and pals, and will do so with our next child as well. We each have dear lifelong friends — from our respective childhoods and teenage years growing up here in New York City, from Dana’s time living in San Francisco and Kathleen’s many years living in Portland, Oregon, from each of our professional and volunteer work lives, and from our faith and activist communities, as well as more connections built through various activities during our years together as a couple.

Unfortunately, Kathleen and Dana’s parents are no longer living, but we have a number of grandparent figures in our child’s life who will of course add any child we adopt next as a grandchild as well. We are close with Dana’s Aunt Lois, who lives between Phoenix, Arizona, and Long Island, New York, and with Kathleen’s Aunt Raquel, who lives in Houston, Texas and with whom we enjoy summer adventures and road trips when she comes to town. We also have a number of family friends who are surrogate aunts and grandmas to Esperanza and would be to her sibling as well. In addition, Kathleen has several godchildren who she has been close with since birth — some of whom are adoptees and who consider our daughter a cousin. These young people and adults are completely ready to welcome the future child we adopt into the fold of our extended family.