Our first goal is to strengthen birth families so that they can provide their children with a safe home environment. When a child cannot remain in his or her own birth family's home and reunification is not a possibility, adoption is the most desirable plan because it provides children with a legally permanent family. What Is Adoption Adoption is the transfer of parental rights and responsibilities for a child from birth parents to adoptive parents.
Adoption involves a life-long commitment to provide a child with a loving stable home.
Real people with real lives full of ups and downs who desire to provide love and permanence to a child. We do not discriminate against anyone based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, handicap, age, marital status, sexual orientation, etc. Only married couples may adopt jointly. The adoptive parent and the child do not have to be the same race, color, or of the same national origin DCFS follows Interethnic Adoption Provisions amending the Multiethnic Placement Act of 1994, section 1801. DCFS does not deny any person the opportunity to become an adoptive parent on the basis of race, color, or national origin of the adoptive or foster parent or the child involved.