Adoption is a legal act of permanently placing a baby, toddler or older child with one or both parents who were not the true birth parents. Adoption brings about the severing of the parental responsibilities & rights of the true biological parents and turning over those responsibilities & rights onto the adopters. Many kids are placed for adoption because of the actual biological parents' acknowlegement that they are unfortunately unable to take even adequate care of their baby or child. A few biological parents forcibly are stripped of their parental rights and their kids are placed in foster homes since they were abused or abandoned. The physical inability to have a biological child is a standard motive to adopt. The choice to adopt could also be accompanied by the lack of a mate or partner or prefering not to use a sperm donor or surrogate. Single people and same sex partners typically adopt because of this. Processes for legally adopting vary from one country to another. Normally when making an application to adopt, all prospective adoptive parents will be appraised for appropriateness.

Adopting internationally tend to be more pricey and frequently incur additional fees, including the adopters needing to go to the source country. Americans represent the largest number of international adoptive parents. A few large nations have relatively well established rules and procedures for foreign adopters to meet, while some do not. Adoption rules & regulations for each nation vary widely.Any requirements necessary to start the process of international adoption also can vary widely, depending upon the nation of the adoptive parents. In the U.S., as an example, usually the first stage of the process is to pick an adoption facilitator or agency to work with. Each agency or facilitator works with different nations, although just a few focus their energy only on a lone nation.

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