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Family Profile

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Prospective Parent 1 Linnaea Morgan Peak 27
Career English Teacher (High School)
Linnaea grew up in a large and loving family and she is still very close with most of her siblings and her father (her mother is deceased). She met Altair when he was an exchange student staying at her house and became good friends then. They reconnected post-college and married after being together romantically for three years. She cannot have biological children as far as she knows and is looking forward to adopting and starting a family.
Three Hobbies: Painting, Hiking, Thinking philosophically
Three Character Traits: Wise, Easy-going, Funny

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Prospective Parent 2 Altair Manoel Rios Rocha 28
Career News Anchor
Altair grew up in Brazil. Although his family was not wealthy by any means, they were tight knit and loved each other very much. He got the opportunity to study in the US in high school and he met Linnaea there. He decided to pursue tv journalism and too his dream job as a news anchor shortly after he got together with Linnaea. He is now in a good financial position and he can't wait to start his own large and loving family.
Three Hobbies: Cooking, Soccer, Debate
Three Character Traits: Passionate, Gregarious, Modest

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Family Location: a townhouse in Los Angeles, CA, USA
Family Languages: Linnaea speaks English and some limited Spanish while Altair speaks Portuguese and English fluently. He is learning Spanish and Arabic.
Family Religion: Both Linnaea and Altair are atheist but they enjoy studying religion.

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Adoption Profile

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Preferred Number of Children: 3 or 4
Gender Preference: None
Age Preference: They would like one child under age 5 and one over age 10. Other than that they have no preference.
Nationality Preference: They would like to adopt either from the local area (USA) or from South or Central America.
Religion Preference: They would prefer children who are atheist or not devout religious.
Would the family be willing to adopt
—siblings? Yes.
—twins or triplets? Twins, no triplets.
—children with disabilities? No.
—children with diseases? Curable diseases only.
—children with prior disciplinary records? Yes.
—pregnant teenagers or teen parents? Yes and yes.
Would the family prefer an open (contact with birth-parent) or closed (no contact) adoption? They would like to have an open adoption for at least one child.