Designating November 22, 2025, as National Adoption Day and November 2025 as National Adoption Month to promote national awareness of adoption and the children awaiting families, celebrating children and families involved in adoption, and encouraging the people of the United States to secure safety, permanency, and well-being for all children.

Summary

Recognizes November 2025 as National Adoption Month and designates November 22, 2025 (the Saturday before Thanksgiving) as National Adoption Day, and presents findings about children in foster care and adoption in the United States. The measure cites counts and dates for children in foster care and those with adoption plans, highlights long waits for adoption and the number at risk of aging out, notes public interest and misperceptions about adoption, and affirms that reunification, kinship care, and adoption promote permanency.

• Designates November 2025 as National Adoption Month and November 22, 2025 as National Adoption Day.
• Reports 328,947 children in foster care and about 70,421 children with an adoption plan as of Sept. 30, 2024, per the Children's Bureau.
• Highlights lengthy waits for adoption—often nearly three years—and that 15,590 children were at risk of aging out of foster care in 2023.
• Notes that roughly one in three U.S. adults have considered adoption but many people hold misperceptions about the process.
• Affirms that family reunification, kinship care, and domestic and intercountry adoption promote permanency for children.
• Recognizes the Children's Bureau's role in collecting and reporting child welfare data and the Presidential proclamation for National Adoption Month.
• Is declaratory and symbolic: it makes findings and recognitions but does not create new programs or funding.
• Aims to raise public awareness of foster care challenges and adoption options rather than change policy or impose mandates.