Adoption is legally defined as permanently placing a child of any age with one or both parents who were not the true birth parents. Adoption results in the severing of the parental responsibilities & rights of the biological parents and putting those responsibilities and rights onto the adopters. Numerous children are put up for for adoption due to the birth parents' acknowlegement that they are not able to care adequately for their baby, infant or older child. Occasionally true biological parents involuntarily are stripped of their parental rights and their children are placed into foster care since they were abused, neglected or abandoned. A physical inability to biologically have a child is a common basis given to adopt. The choice to adopt can also be due to the lack of a mate or prefering not to use a sperm donor or surrogate. Single folks and same sex partners very often adopt for this very reason. Procedures for becoming a legal adoptive parent can vary from between states or countries. Usually when applying to adopt, the prospective adopters will be judged for suitability and appropriateness.

Adopting internationally tend to be more pricey and very frequently incur other costs, such as the adoptive parents being required to travel to the source country. Citizens of the US represent the biggest number of international adoptive parents. A number of larger countries have fairly well founded laws, rules and procedures for foreign adopters to cope with, while some do not. Adoption rules and regulations for each country will differ widely.Any requirements necessary to start the process of international adoption also can differ widely, depending on the country of the adopters. In the United States, as a general example, usually the 1st rung of the process is to select an facilitator or agency to work with. Each facilitator or agency works with different nations, although a select few only focus on a single country.

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