AUSTIN, Texas — Every week on KVUE, we feature a different child in the Texas foster care system, in hopes of helping them get adopted by a forever family. And sometimes, we get the honor of providing an adoption update about some of the children we feature!
Benjamin and Rhyker are two little boys that KVUE featured in November 2023. Now, the brothers have been adopted!
Their caseworker shared an update that their adoption was made official in court with an adoption ceremony. Their new family all showed up in matching T-shirts to support them.
Their caseworker also said that the boys’ new grandmother was adopted when she was a little girl, so the family is familiar with the adoption process.
Here’s a photo of the family in the courtroom on the brothers’ adoption day:
Learn more about how to make an inquiry about a child featured on KVUE’s Forever Families series.
KVUE launched the Forever Families segment with Partnerships for Children (PFC) in June 2020 to highlight children in the Heart Gallery of Central Texas who need secure and permanent families. Every day, there are nearly 1,000 children waiting to get adopted in Central Texas, according to PFC.
Editor’s note: The children who are in the Heart Gallery program and featured in KVUE’s Forever Families segments are children who have had every effort made on their behalf to connect them with family or others in their community to provide options for permanent, adoptive homes. Through no fault of their own, that hasn’t happened yet, and so in partnership with the Department of Family and Protective Services, we collaborate to bring awareness to KVUE viewers about these children in the hopes of finding them permanency before they age out.