Adoption is a legal act of permanently placing a baby, infant or older child with a parent or parental couple other than the actual birth parents. Adoption results in the severing of the parental rights and responsibilities of the true biological parents and giving over those rights & responsibilities onto the adoptive parents. A number of kids are put up for for adoption due to the true birth parents' acknowlegement that they are not able to take good basic care of their little one. Some actual birth parents involuntarily lose their parental rights so that their kids are placed into foster homes because they were abused or even abandoned. The physical inability to have a biological child is a normal reason given for adopting. A choice to adopt could also be related to the lack of a marital partner or deciding not to use a surrogate or sperm donor. Single individuals and same sex partners very often adopt because of this reason. Procedures for legally adopting a child can vary from state to state or between countries. Normally when applying to adopt, any potential adoptive parents will be appraised for appropriateness.

Adopting internationally are typically more expensive and also very often incur extra costs, including the adopters being required to journey to the source country. People from the U.S. represent most of the international adopters. A number of more developed countries have relatively well thought out procedures and rules for foreign adopters to cope with, while other countries do not. Adoption policies & procedures for each nation can differ widely.Any conditions needed to begin the process of adopting internationally also can differ widely, depending on the country of the adoptive parents. In the U.S., as a general rule, typically the first phase of the process is to find an facilitator or agency to work with. Each agency or facilitator works with a different group of nations, and many place their focus on a single nation.

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