Adoption is legally defined as permanently placing a baby, infant or older child with one or both parents who weren't the true birth parents. Adoption causes the severing of the parental rights and responsibilities of the birth parents and giving over those rights and responsibilities onto the adopters. Many children, no matter their ages, are placed for adoption as a result of the biological parents' acknowlegement that they are unable to adequately take care of their baby. A number of actual biological parents involuntarily are stripped of their parental rights and their child is placed in foster homes because they were abused, neglected or abandoned. The physical incapability to biologically have a child is a frequent basis given for adopting. Wanting to adopt might also stem from the lack of a mate or a preference not to use a surrogate or sperm donor. Single individuals and same sex couples often adopt for this very reason. Procedures for becoming an adoptive parent change from between states or countries. Normally when filling out an application to adopt, any prospective adoptive parents will be assessed for suitability and appropriateness.

International adoptions are frequently more expensive and regularly incur more costs, like the adoptive parents being required to journey to the source country. People from the U.S. represent most of the international adopters. A number of more developed countries have reasonably well established rules and procedures for out of country adopters to comply with, while other countries don't. Adoption policies & procedures for each country deviate widely.The requirements necessary to begin the process of international adoption also deviate widely, depending on the country of the adoptive parents. In america, as a general rule, usually the 1st phase of the process is to find an adoption agency or facilitator to work with. Every facilitator or agency works with different countries, although a select few focus only on a lone country.

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