Kentucky Kids Belong
Foster care
Foster Care is a temporary home for a child with a caring family. The goal is to safely reunite these children with their birth families. As a foster parent, your impact goes beyond a child - you may have a chance to help an entire family move toward wholeness.
Adoption
Adoption provides a child with a life-long legal and emotional family relationship. When a child is adopted, that child moves permanently from one family to another family. In the process, all parental rights are legally transferred to the new parents. This means adoptive parents have the same rights and responsibilities as parents whose children were born to them. It also means adopted children have all the emotional, social, legal, and familial benefits of biological children.
Pope Francis said that to adopt and give someone a family is an act of love by which a man and a woman become mediators of God’s love.