Sunday’s Child is a weekly column featuring a child or children currently in foster care awaiting adoption.

Henry and Robert are friendly brothers of African-American descent. Their social worker describes the boys as having very similar personalities and interests.

Henry, 10, and Robert, 11, are both very outgoing and make friends easily. They enjoy being active, whether they are playing outside or engaging in sports related activities. Some of their other interests include music, dancing, and playing video games. They both do well in school.

Henry and Robert are legally free for adoption and their social worker is open to placing the boys in any type of home with at least one male parent. They would benefit from being in a home where they can be the youngest or only children. Any interested family should be willing to maintain an open adoption with their birth mother. Henry and Robert also need to maintain their connection to another sibling who is placed separately.

Who can adopt?

Can you provide the guidance, love, and stability that 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; LGBTQ 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 your family will be a good match for.

To learn more about adoption from foster care, call the Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange (MARE) at 617-964-6273 or visit www.mareinc.org. The sooner you call, the sooner a waiting child will have “a permanent place to call home.’’