Adoption means legally permanently placing a baby, infant or older child with a parent or parents other than the actual birth parents. Adoption leads to the severing of the parental rights and responsibilities of the biological parents and extending those responsibilities and rights onto the adopters. Many youngsters are put up for for adoption because of the actual birth parents' decision that they are unfortunately not able to take even adequate care of their toddler. Other true biological parents involuntarily lose their parental rights so that their children are placed in foster care as they were abused, abandoned or neglected. A physical inability to biologically reproduce is a frequent or common cause given to adopt. A desire to adopt may also be due to the lack of a spouse or partner or a lack of desire to use a sperm donor or surrogate. Unmarried individuals and same sex couples very often adopt because of this reason. Procedures for adopting change from state to state or between countries. Commonly when making an application to adopt, the potential adoptive parents will be judged for appropriate suitability.

Adopting from outside one's country frequently are more high-priced and ususally incur further fees, including the adoptive parents needing to journey to the source country. Americans represent the majority of international adoptive parents. A number of larger countries have relatively well proven laws and procedures for foreign adopters to cope with, while others do not. Adoption policies and procedures for each country differ widely.The requirements needed to begin the process of adopting outside the country also can vary widely, depending upon the nation of the adoptive parents. In the US, as a general rule, generally the initial rung in the process is finding an adoption agency or facilitator to work with. Every facilitator or agency works with a different set of countries, and many only focus on a specific country.

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