Adoption is a legal term for permanently placing a baby or older child with parents who weren't the actual biological parents. Adoption means the severing of the parental responsibilities & rights of the biological parents and ascribing those responsibilities & rights onto the adoptive parents. Many, many babies or children are placed for adoption due to the birth parents' acknowlegement that they are unfortunately unable to adequately care for their baby. Some percentage of birth parents forcibly are stripped of their parental rights so that their children are placed into foster homes because they were abused, abandoned or neglected. A physical incapability to biologically reproduce is a typically common basis given for adopting. A desire to adopt could also be accompanied by the lack of a marital partner or desiring not to use a surrogate or sperm donor. Unmarried folks and same sex partners often adopt for this reason. Procedures for legally adopting a child deviate from country to country or even between states. Normally when making an application to adopt, any prospective adoptive parents will be appraised for appropriate suitability.

Adopting from outside one's country usually are more high-priced and ususally incur extra costs, such as the adoptive parents necessarily being required to go to the source country. Citizens of the U.S. represent the biggest number of international adoptive parents. Many developted nations have moderately well instituted procedures and rules for foreign adopters to satisfy, while others don't. Adoption policies and procedures for each country will differ widely.Any conditions needed to commence the process of adopting outside the country also can vary widely, depending on the nation of the adoptive parents. In the US, as an example, generally the first stage in the process is to select an agency or facilitator to work with. Each facilitator or agency works with different countries, and a select few focus all their energy on a lone country.

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