Adoption means legally permanently placing a baby, infant or older child with one or two parents other than the actual biological parents. Adoption gives rise to the severing of the parental responsibilities and rights of the birth parents and turning over those responsibilities and rights onto the adopters. A number of children, no matter their ages, are placed for adoption because of the biological parents' acknowlegement that they are not able to take basic care of their infant or child. A few actual biological parents forcibly are stripped of their parental rights so that their child or children are placed in foster care because they were abused or even abandoned. The lack of ability to have a biological child is a typically common reason to adopt. A decision to adopt may also be due to the lack of a marital partner or a decision not to use a sperm donor or surrogate. Single people and same sex partners often adopt for this reason. Procedures for adopting a child can vary from one country to another. Normally when filling out an application to adopt, the prospective adoptive parents will be considered for appropriate suitability.

International adoptions typically are more high-priced and also oftentimes incur more costs, including the adopters having to journey to the source nation. US citizens represent the biggest number of international adoptive parents. Some developed countries have fairly well founded procedures and rules for foreign adopters to carry out, while some do not. Adoption rules and regulations for each country can vary widely.Any conditions needed to start the process of international adoption also differ widely, depending upon the nation of the adopters. In the U.S., as a general rule, typically the 1st point of the process is finding an adoption facilitator or agency to deal with. Each agency or facilitator works with a different set of countries, although others focus only on a single nation.

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