Adoption is the legal act of permanently placing a baby or older child with a parent or parents other than the true birth parents. Adoption leads to the severing of the parental rights and responsibilities of the birth parents and passing those responsibilities & rights onto the adoptive parents. A great number of babies or children are put up for for adoption because of the birth parents' acknowlegement that they are unfortunately unable to adequately care for their baby or child. Some percentage of actual biological parents involuntarily are stripped of their parental rights and their child is placed in foster care since they were abused or abandoned. A physical incapability to reproduce biologically is a frequent cause given for adopting. The wish to adopt could also be due to the lack of a partner of the opposite sex or the desire not to use a sperm donor or surrogate. Unmarried folks and same sex couples typically adopt for this very reason. Methods of becoming an adoptive parent change from state to state or between countries. Commonly when filling out an application to adopt, all prospective adoptive parents will be appraised for suitability.

Adopting from outside one's country typically are more costly and also oftentimes incur further costs, like the adoptive parents needing to go to the source country. People from America represent most of the international adoptive parents. Some developted nations have relatively well instituted laws and procedures for out of country adopters to cope with, while other countries do not. Adoption policies and procedures for each country deviate widely.Requirements needed to begin the process of adopting internationally also will vary widely, depending on the nation of the adopters. In the United States, as a general example, generally the number 1 step of the process is choosing an adoption facilitator or agency to deal with. Each adoption facilitator or agency works with different nations, and a select few focus their energy only on a specific nation.

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