Adoption is legally defined as permanently placing a baby or older child with a parent or parental couple other than the biological parents. Adoption results in the severing of the parental responsibilities and rights of the biological parents and giving over those rights & responsibilities onto the adoptive parents. Numerous children are placed up for for adoption as a result of the true birth parents' decision that they are unfortunately not able to take good care of their baby. Some percentage of true biological parents involuntarily are stripped of their parental rights so that their child is placed into foster care because they were abused, abandoned or neglected. The physical incapability to have a biological child is a standard motive to adopt. Wanting to adopt can also be due to the lack of a mate or the desire not to use a sperm donor or surrogate. Single individuals and same sex partners typically adopt for this reason. Procedures for adopting a child can vary from state to state or between countries. Commonly when making an application to adopt, all potential adopters will be considered for appropriate suitability.

Adopting from outside one's country tend to be more high-priced and regularly incur more fees, including the adopters necessarily being required to travel to the source nation. American citizens represent the biggest number of international adoptive parents. Some developed countries have fairly well founded laws and procedures for foreign adopters to comply with, while some don't. Adoption rules and regulations for each country can differ widely.Requirements necessary to begin the process of adopting outside the country also can differ widely, depending on the nation of the adopters. In america, as a general rule, typically the first phase of the process is to select an facilitator or agency to work with. Every agency or facilitator works with a different set of countries, although other people focus their energy only on a single country.

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