November is National Adoption Month, and Friday (and Saturday in some states) is National Adoption Day. In Good Friday November 2023, I explained the origins of the month. Its goal is to not only reach older children and youth in the foster care system, but also to advocate for and work to ensure that these youth are adopted into forever families. This month also highlights organizations that connect children with families, provide resources to those foster families, and help foster youth who leave the system become better people. quality of life.
According to 2024 foster care statistics, approximately 330,000 youth were in the foster care system in the United States, with approximately one-third of these children and teens eligible for adoption. Every year, between 18,000 and 20,000 children “graduate” from the foster care system and thus face a high risk of becoming homeless and unemployed. Another shocking statistic is that one-fifth of prisoners in the United States are in foster care.
This week's Good Friday is dedicated to the Selfless Love Foundation and the adopted children and youth who have been adopted into adoption ceremonies across the country.
Read more: Good Friday: National Adoption Day awakens all the senses and opens up opportunities for donations
Founded in 2015, the company Selfless Love Foundation focuses its resources on the plight of foster youth. The organization strives to improve the child welfare system and ensure that aging youth leaving the system can move into safe housing. This gives them a stronger foundation to move into the future. The Selfless Love Foundation also works to create connections between foster youth and foster families.
🗓️34 months! This is the average wait time for children in foster care to be adopted. Permanence in adoption opens the door to lifelong healing, belonging, and love.💖 Join Us #NationalAdoptionMonth as we work to make the dream of a forever family a reality for children in… pic.twitter.com/VMJsM3pmFQ
— Selfless Love FDN (@selflesslovefdn) November 17, 2025
Join us this #NationalAdoptionMonth as we work to make the dream of a forever family a reality for children in foster care.
On Friday, Fox News America aired a segment on the Selfless Love Foundation with its founder and CEO Ashley Brown, and co-host Dana Perino shared some sobering statistics that show fewer children are being adopted from foster care. Brown then introduced a family whose lives were changed by Brown's vision and work.
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NATIONAL ADOPTION MONTH: @selflesslovefdnAshley Brown and the Toles family remind us of the importance of adoption and helping children find their forever home – during National Adoption Month and all year round. pic.twitter.com/eRYzRgPNZr
— America's Newsroom (@AmericaNewsroom) November 21, 2025
But the joy of National Adoption Day is adoption. Family courts deal only with adoptions all day long. A Massachusetts family court processed more than 100 adoptions Friday.
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It is rewarding to see young people who have experienced abuse, neglect and abandonment being grafted into a forever family. Celebrating National Adoption Day in Wayne County, Michigan will bring tears to your eyes.
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And this adoption in St. Albans, Virginia, became extra special when the adoptive mom got her new daughter's name tattooed on her arm. along with the children of her other children.
Jay-Dean, pronounced “Jayden,” first came into Bobbiejo's life as a niece spending the summer with the family. When J-Dyn later needed a foster family, Bobbiejo happily thought about being her new mom and applied for kinship foster care.
Jay-Dean always wanted to be adopted, and after a two-year process, a final adoption hearing was scheduled in St. Albans, Vermont.
Bobbiejo already considered J-Dyn one of her own and decided to mark the occasion by adding J-Dyn's name to the family tree tattoo on her arm, along with the names of her other children.
It's as touching as you imagine.
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It's National Adoption Month! This mom made her daughter's adoption day even more special when she revealed the secret. #humanity pic.twitter.com/WjB5wdBb0V
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) November 4, 2025
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