A woman who was once a foster child has adopted the baby of her husband’s late ex-wife, an act of love to prevent the child from going into the foster system. She says, as if it was a sign from God, she often dreamed of a blonde-haired, blue-eyed baby even before they learned about the child.
California-born Christie Werts, 48, married Wesley Werts, 45, in 2018. Both have children from their previous marriages: Mrs. Werts’s 15-year-old son, Vance, and 21-year-old daughter, Megan; and Mr. Werts’s son, Austin, 14, and daughter, Dakota, 10. In January this year, after a process that took 16 months to complete, they adopted baby Levi—one of the children of Mr. Werts’s ex-wife, a child who had unfortunately been exposed to drugs in his mother’s womb.
