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Declares congressional findings supporting adoption and other permanent family placements for children in foster care, cites recent federal statistics on the number of children in care and those waiting for adoption, and recognizes National Adoption Day and National Adoption Month for 2025. It highlights the roles of family reunification, kinship care, domestic and intercountry adoption in achieving permanency and notes the Children’s Bureau’s work to remove barriers to adoption. The resolution is a formal, nonbinding statement intended to raise awareness about children who lack permanent homes and to record the President’s proclamation designating November 2025 as National Adoption Month and the Saturday before Thanksgiving 2025 as National Adoption Day.
The resolution raises awareness and may boost volunteer and court efforts to find permanent homes for foster children, but it conveys no funding or policy changes and could shift attention toward adoption at the expense of other child welfare options.
Children in foster care and their families receive increased public visibility and volunteer/court engagement because the resolution designates National Adoption Month/Day, which can boost recruitment and support that help place children in permanent families.
Because the text is purely findings/recognition and does not authorize funding or change services, it will have limited immediate effect on the availability or quality of child welfare services.
Emphasizing adoption through a national observance could unintentionally draw attention and resources away from reunification, kinship care, or other supports that some children and families need.
Introduced November 20, 2025 by Kevin Cramer · Last progress November 20, 2025