Adoption From Foster Care

When children in out-of-home care cannot be safely reunited with their birth families, adoption is often the most desirable goal. Adoption provides the most stable, legally binding relationship for these children and their adoptive parents.

Foster parents adopt most children who are adopted from foster care; many other children are adopted by relatives. In some cases, child welfare professionals must recruit potential adoptive families for specific children who are waiting for adoption.

AdoptUSKids
Assists States, Tribes, territories, and courts in their efforts to recruit and retain foster, adoptive, and kinship families and connect them with waiting children throughout the United States. AdoptUSKids also raises public awareness about the need for foster and adoptive families.