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

Benjamin is a creative and friendly 8-year-old who loves video games, puzzles, and board games. He also likes to teach others how to play chess and is always up for a challenge. He also enjoys swimming and reading.

Benjamin is a very smart child who especially excels in math and reading. He enjoys spending time with both adults and children. He likes routines but is also up for adventure. Benjamin is described by those who know him well as both sweet and silly.

Ready for adoption, Benjamin would do best in a single- or two-parent family that helps to maintain contact with his siblings who are placed separately. He currently visits with them at least monthly and looks forward to these visits. Benjamin would do best as the youngest or only child in the home. If there were older children, it would be best if they were teenagers, as he becomes overwhelmed easily with the natural chaos that comes with younger children.

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 617-6273 or visit www.mareinc.org. The sooner you call, the sooner a waiting child will have “a permanent place to call home.’’