Adoption is a legal act meaning permanently placing a child of any age with one or both parents other than the true birth parents. Adoption leads to the severing of the parental rights and responsibilities of the actual biological parents and passing those responsibilities and rights onto the adopters. A large number of kids are put up for for adoption due to the biological parents' decision that they are not able to take basic care of their toddler. Some percentage of actual biological parents involuntarily lose their parental rights so that their children are placed into foster care as they were neglected or even abused. The lack of ability to have a biological child is a standard motive given for adopting. A desire to adopt may also stem from the lack of a partner of the opposite sex or the desire not to use a surrogate or sperm donor. Unmarried people and same sex couples very often adopt because of this reason. Processes for legally adopting a child can be different from between states or countries. Usually when filling out an application to adopt, any prospective adopters will be judged for appropriateness.

Adopting internationally are usually more costly and also very often incur additional fees, like the adoptive parents needing to journey to the source country. Americans represent the biggest number of international adoptive parents. Some large nations have reasonably well established procedures and rules for foreign adopters to abide by, while other countries do not. Adoption policies for each country vary widely.Any conditions necessary to start the process of adopting internationally also vary widely, depending upon the country of the adoptive parents. In the United States, as a general rule, usually the first step of the process is to select an facilitator or agency to deal with. Each agency or facilitator works with different countries, although some focus their energy only on a single country.

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