National Adoption Day 2025 Creates New Hope, Loving Families for Foster Care Youth – RedState
November is National Adoption Month and Friday (and Saturday in some states) is National Adoption Day. In a November 2023 Feel-Good Friday, I explained the origin of the month. Her intention is not only to raise awareness for older children and youth who are in the foster care system, but also to advocate and work to have these youth adopted into forever families. The month also highlights organizations that match children with families, provide resources to these adoptive families, and help foster families who have aged out of the system access a better quality of life.
According to 2024 foster care statistics, nearly 330,000 youth were in the U.S. foster care system, and approximately one-third of these children and adolescents were eligible for adoption. Each year, 18,000 to 20,000 children “age out” of the foster care system and therefore face a high risk of homelessness and lack of employment. Another shocking statistic is that one-fifth of America’s prison population has been placed in foster care.
This week’s Feel-Good Friday celebrates the Selfless Love Foundation, as well as the children and youth in foster care who have been embraced in adoption ceremonies across the country.
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Founded in 2015, the Selfless Love Foundation focuses its resources on the plight of foster youth. The organization seeks to improve the child welfare system and ensure that youth who age out of the system can move into safe housing. This gives them a stronger foundation so they can launch into their future. The Selfless Love Foundation also works to create connections between foster youth and adoptive families.
🗓️34 months! This is the average wait time for children in foster care to be adopted. The permanence of adoption opens doors to healing, belonging, and love for life.💖 Join us this #NationalAdoptionMonth as we work to make the dream of forever family a reality for the children of… 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 US Newsroom featured a segment on the Selfless Love Foundation with its founder and CEO Ashley Brown, with co-host Dana Perino sharing sobering statistics that show fewer children are being adopted from foster care. Brown then introduced a family whose lives were changed because of 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 homes – during National Adoption Month and all year long. pic.twitter.com/eRYzRgPNZr
– American Newsroom (@AmericaNewsroom) November 21, 2025
But the joy of National Adoption Day is adoptions. Family courts take all day just to do adoptions. This Massachusetts family court processed more than 100 adoptions on Friday.
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It is a joy to see young people who come from an experience of abuse, neglect and abandonment join a forever family. This National Adoption Day celebration in Wayne County, Michigan will bring tears to your eyes.
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And this adoption in St. Albans, Vermont, became even more special when the adoptive mother tattooed her new daughter’s name on her arm, alongside those of her other children.
J-dyn, pronounced “Jayden,” first came into Bobbiejo’s life as a niece who spent her summers with the family. When J-dyn later needed a foster family, Bobbiejo relished the idea of becoming her new mother and applied for a foster placement.
J-dyn always wanted to be adopted and after a two-year process, the final adoption hearing was set in St. Albans, Vermont.
Bobbiejo already considered J-dyn his own and decided to mark the occasion by adding J-dyn’s name to the family tree tattoo on his arm alongside the names of his 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 a secret. #humanity pic.twitter.com/WjB5wdBb0V
– UNITED STATES TODAY (@USATODAY) November 4, 2025
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