Adoption is a very important choice to make, and is not something that is decided overnight. There are 397,122 children within the U.S. foster care system, one-third of whom are eligible for adoption; however, 32% will be in foster care for at least three years before they are actually adopted. Unfortunately, during those three years while waiting to be adopted, 55% of these children will have been placed in three or more foster homes. In addition, 33% of them have had to changed schools five times and, as a result, have fallen behind in their education, as well as in relationships they had begun to cultivate.

Families, couples, and individuals are eligible to adopt a child after going through certain steps, the first being the selection of an adoption agency with which the family would