Adoption is legally defined as permanently placing a child with a parent or parents other than the birth parents. Adoption causes the severing of the parental rights and responsibilities of the true biological parents and passing those responsibilities and rights onto the adopters. A number of children are placed up for for adoption as a result of the biological parents' decision that they are 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 because they were abandoned, abused or neglected. A physical inability to biologically have a child is a typical cause given to adopt. The wish to adopt may also stem from the lack of a partner of the opposite sex or prefering not to use a surrogate or sperm donor. Single people and same sex couples typically adopt for this reason. Processes for adopting will vary from country to country. Usually when filling out an application to adopt, any potential adopters will be assessed for appropriate suitability.

International adoptions usually are more expensive and typically incur more fees, like the adopters necessarily being required to journey to the source country. Citizens of the U.S. represent the largest number of international adopters. A number of larger nations have reasonably well founded laws and procedures for out of country adopters to fulfil, while others do not. Adoption rules & regulations for each country will differ widely.Any conditions needed to start the process of adopting internationally also will differ widely, depending on the nation of the adoptive parents. In america, as a general example, typically the first phase of the process is to select an agency or facilitator to deal with. Each agency or facilitator works with a different set of countries, although some focus only on a single country.

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