Adoption means legally permanently placing a baby or older child with parents who were not the actual biological parents. Adoption is considered the severing of the parental rights and responsibilities of the actual birth parents and putting those rights & responsibilities onto the adoptive parents. A great number of youngsters are placed for adoption because of the actual biological parents' acknowlegement that they are unfortunately unable to take basic care of their toddler. Some percentage of true biological parents forcibly lose their parental rights and their kids are placed in foster homes as they were neglected or abused. The physical inability to biologically reproduce is a typical motive given for adopting. The choice to adopt can also be due to the lack of a marital partner or prefering not to use a sperm donor or surrogate. Single individuals and same sex partners typically adopt for this very reason. Processes for legally adopting can be different from country to country or even between states. Ordinarily when applying to adopt, all potential adopters will be judged for appropriateness.

Adopting from outside one's country tend to be more expensive and also typically incur additional costs, such as the adoptive parents needing to journey to the source country. Citizens of the U.S. represent the largest number of international adopters. Some developed countries have relatively well established procedures and rules for out of country adopters to go along with, while other countries do not. Adoption regulations for each country will vary widely.Requirements needed to commence the process of international adoption also will vary widely, depending on the country of the adoptive parents. In the U.S., as an example, typically the first phase in the process is to select an agency or facilitator to work with. Each facilitator or agency works with different nations, and just a few put their focus on a lone country.

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