Adoption is a legal term for permanently placing a baby, toddler or older child with one or two parents other than the actual birth parents. Adoption generates the severing of the parental rights & responsibilities of the actual birth parents and handing over those rights and responsibilities onto the adoptive parents. Many youngsters are placed up for for adoption because of the actual biological parents' decision that they are unfortunately unable to take even adequate care of their baby or child. Some percentage of true birth parents forcibly lose their parental rights & their children are placed in foster homes as they were abused or abandoned. The lack of ability to biologically have a child is a typical motive for adopting. The decision to adopt can also correspond with the lack of a mate or prefering not to use a surrogate or sperm donor. Single individuals and same sex couples sometimes adopt for this very reason. Procedures for legally adopting can differ from country to country or even between states. Usually when making an application to adopt, any prospective adopters will be judged for suitability.

International adoptions tend to be more expensive and oftentimes incur further costs, including the adoptive parents having to travel to the source country. U.S. citizens represent the biggest number of international adoptive parents. Many more developed countries have fairly well thought out laws and rules for foreign adopters to carry out, while some do not. Adoption policies for each nation will vary widely.The requirements needed to begin the process of adopting outside the country also will vary widely, depending upon the country of the adopters. In the US, as a general rule, generally the number 1 step of the process is selecting an facilitator or agency to deal with. Every facilitator or agency works with a different group of countries, and other people focus all their energy on a single nation.

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