The goal of DCYF’s Special Needs Adoption Program is to provide permanent families for children who have become freed for adoption within the state’s substitute child care system.
From the New Hampshire Department of Health & Human Services:
The Division for Children, Youth & Families (DCYF) investigates allegations of child abuse and neglect. When an assessment indicates a child's safety is at risk, DCYF petitions the court to remove the child from his or her family and place him or her in a safe, caring, temporary environment - a foster home.
From the Vermont Department for Children and Families:
The majority of children in foster care return home to their parents; sometimes, however, children cannot safely go home and permanent families need to be found. We first look to relatives, family friends, and foster parents to provide permanancy for children who cannot go home. Sometimes, however, adoptive families need to be found.
My wife and I always knew that we wanted to have a kid or two. We also were pretty certain that we didn't want to increase the surface population. We knew that there were lots of kids both here in the United States and abroad who were without parents for one reason or another.
