Adoption is termed the legal act of permanently placing a baby or child with parents who weren't the true biological parents. Adoption effectuates the severing of the parental responsibilities and rights of the actual birth parents and turning over those responsibilities and rights onto the adopters. Many, many youngsters are placed up for for adoption as a result of the true biological parents' acknowlegement that they are unable to take even adequate care of their child of any age. Some percentage of true biological parents involuntarily are stripped of their parental rights so that their child or children are placed in foster homes because they were abandoned, abused or neglected. A physical incapability to reproduce biologically is a common or frequent cause given for adopting. A desire to adopt can also stem from the lack of a mate or partner or the desire not to use a sperm donor or surrogate. Unmarried individuals and same sex partners sometimes adopt for this very reason. Methods of legally adopting will vary from state to state or between countries. Ordinarily when applying to adopt, all prospective adoptive parents will be considered for appropriate suitability.

International adoptions are often more expensive and very often incur further costs, such as the adoptive parents needing to go to the source country. Citizens of the U.S. represent the majority of international adopters. Many large nations have fairly well established laws and procedures for foreign adopters to comply with, while other nations do not. Adoption rules and regulations for each nation vary widely.The conditions needed to commence the process of adopting outside the country also vary widely, depending on the country of the adoptive parents. In the U.S., as a general example, usually the first rung of the process is to choose an facilitator or agency to work with. Each adoption facilitator or agency works with different nations, and just some put their focus on a single nation.

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