Adoption is legally defined as permanently placing a child with parents who weren't the actual biological parents. Adoption means the severing of the parental responsibilities & rights of the birth parents and passing those rights & responsibilities onto the adopters. A large number of children, no matter their ages, are placed up for for adoption as a result of the true biological parents' decision that they are unable to adequately take care of their baby, infant or older child. Other true biological parents forcibly lose their parental rights so that their child is placed in foster homes since they were abused or abandoned. The physical incapability to biologically reproduce is a general or common basis given to adopt. The choice to adopt may also be accompanied by the lack of a spouse or the desire not to use a sperm donor or surrogate. Unmarried people and same sex partners sometimes adopt for this reason. Procedures for legally adopting can be different from one country to another. Normally when filling out an application to adopt, any potential adoptive parents will be evaluated for suitability and appropriateness.

Adopting internationally usually are more expensive and also oftentimes incur further fees, such as the adopters needing to go to the source country. US citizens represent the majority of international adoptive parents. Many more developed nations have fairly well founded laws, rules and procedures for out of country adopters to abide by, while other countries don't. Adoption policies for each nation can vary widely.Any requirements necessary to commence the process of adopting internationally also can differ widely, depending upon the nation of the adopters. In the U.S., as a general rule, generally the 1st rung in the process is selecting an adoption agency or facilitator to work with. Each adoption agency or facilitator works with a different group of nations, and other people only focus on a single country.

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