Sunday’s Child is a weekly column featuring a child currently in foster care and waiting for adoption.

Damion is a handsome, engaging 9-year-old African-American boy who enjoys school and sports. His social worker describes Damion’s nature as kind, gentle and even-tempered. Damion does very well in school, both academically and behaviorally. He gets along with other children. Damion is currently in a foster home. He loves attending church with his foster family and participating in activities there.

A bright, imaginative youngster, Damion strives to do well and loves receiving praise. His favorite subject is math. He also has a good vocabulary and is able to express himself well. In his free time, Damion enjoys playing basketball and soccer, as well as riding his bicycle and playing with Legos.

Damion has two younger siblings in foster care who have been placed separately. He has been a protective big brother and enjoys opportunities to spend time with his siblings. His social worker is seeking a family that would, after adoption, support his contact with his siblings. Damion would like to find his forever family and his social worker believes he would respond well to having a male role model in his life.  

Who can adopt?

Can you provide the guidance, love and stability a child needs? If you’re at least 18 years old, have a stable source of income, and room in your heart, you may be a perfect match to adopt a waiting child. Adoptive parents can be single, married, or partnered; experienced or not; renters or homeowners; LGBT singles and couples.

The process to adopt a child from foster care requires training, interviews, and home visits to determine if adoption is right for you, and if so, to help connect you with a child or sibling group that will be a good match.

To learn more about adoption from foster care, call the Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange (MARE) at 617-54-ADOPT (617-542-3678) or visit www.mareinc.org. The sooner you call, the sooner a waiting child will have a permanent place to call home.