[1][2] They had five children while working as missionaries: Scott (born in Bolivia), Kevin and Liana (Argentina), and Miles and Leith (Peru).
[2] One of White's earlier popular books is Eros Defiled which tackles the topic of Christians and sexual sin.
White would later come to regret this book and its continuance in print because he no longer held that psychiatry was the answer to freedom from sexual sin.
[3] In the section on homosexuality in Eros Defiled John White describes how, as a junior high school student, he suffered sexual abuse at the hands of a Christian youth worker.
These quotations represent significant aspects of Dr. White's thought, with an emphasis on what might be considered the less orthodox and more exploratory areas.