Why are infants or very young children not featured on the website?
Infants and toddlers in foster care are often placed with relatives or adopted by their foster parents if they are not able to be returned to their parents. Many times, current pre-approved adoptive families already known to the county agency are submitted to the child’s adoption committee for consideration and the public recruitment process isn’t needed. When NC Kids is notified of a child under age five in need of an adoptive family, we will use our database to match the children with potential families who are currently registered with NC Kids. This is a rare occurrence and families interested in adopting a younger child should contact a licensed private child placing agency that specializes in infant/toddler adoption.
