Adoption and Foster Care

Adoption and foster care are ways to provide a safe and supportive environment for children who cannot live with their birth families. Foster care temporarily places children with trained, caring adults while their situations are resolved. Adoption is a legal process that makes a child a permanent member of another family, with full parental rights. Both aim to ensure children grow up in stable, loving homes, with foster care often serving as a temporary step before possibly becoming an adoptive family.