Diagram showing the gap between adoption recruitment messaging and actual foster care adoption pathways, where adults respond to adoption ads but experience no response or are redirected into foster parent licensing instead of adoption.

The Gap This Site Addresses

Across the U.S. organizations and media promote the urgent need for adoptive families for children in foster care.

Many adults respond with sincere interest in adoption. But once they reach out, the path forward is often unclear, delayed, or redirected into foster parent licensing — even when adoption is their specific goal.

Some adults are told adoption through foster care is not possible at all. Others never hear back.

This site exists to clarify the path to adopting children waiting in the U.S. foster care system.

Find Your Path

Grounded in Research & Practice

This work is informed by national research, lived experience, and more than a decade of guiding adults to adopt children and sibling groups waiting in the foster care system. Through The Forgotten Adoption Option, more than 12,000 prospective adoptive parents across the United States have been supported.

This work is informed by national research, lived experience, and more than a decade of guiding adults to adopt children and sibling groups waiting in the foster care system. Through The Forgotten Adoption Option, more than 12,000 prospective adoptive parents across the United States have been supported.

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