Adoption is a beautiful way to grow a family. It is a positive solution for a mother who feels unable to parent her child, providing her with a life-affirming choice. This incredible gift of the birth mother and her family gives adoptive parents the joy of parenting that fulfills a deep, beautiful longing, and she is afforded the knowledge that he child receives the gift of a loving home that is permanent. Currently in the US there are over 400,000 children in foster care, and more than 100,000 of them in need of a permanent home. Adoption creates an opportunity for those children in the foster care system to enter into a stable, loving family.