Adoption is a legal term for permanently placing a baby, toddler or older child with a parent (or parents) who weren't the true biological parents. Adoption results in the severing of the parental rights and responsibilities of the birth parents and passing those rights and responsibilities onto the adopters. Many, many babies or children are placed for adoption because of the actual birth parents' acknowlegement that they are unfortunately not able to take good basic care of their baby or older child. A number of actual biological parents forcibly are stripped of their parental rights and their children are placed into foster care as they were abused or abandoned. The lack of ability to reproduce biologically is a typically common motive given to adopt. The choice to adopt can also stem from the lack of a partner of the opposite sex or desiring not to use a sperm donor or surrogate. Unmarried folks and same sex partners sometimes adopt for this reason. Processes for legally adopting a child can vary from state to state or between countries. Commonly when filling out an application to adopt, all potential adoptive parents will be appraised for suitability.

International adoptions tend to be more costly and often incur more costs, such as the adopters having to journey to the source country. U.S. citizens represent the major share of international adopters. A number of large nations have reasonably well established laws and rules for foreign adopters to abide by, while other nations don't. Adoption rules and regulations for each nation differ widely.Any requirements needed to commence the process of adopting internationally also will differ widely, depending upon the nation of the adoptive parents. In the United States, as a general example, usually the number 1 phase in the process is choosing an adoption agency or facilitator to work with. Every facilitator or agency works with a different group of nations, although a few only focus on a specific country.

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