A 1.4 billion dollar industry in which American couples buy a baby from a third world country for $10,000 to $50,000 USD. There is a strong correlation between the price of the baby and the race of the baby.

During the selection process, every attempt is made to purchase a non-defective human.

Significant portions of the transaction wind up lining the pockets of corrupt third world government officials and shady the non-profit orgagizations involved in connecting the buyers of babies with the sellers of babies.
Angelina Jolie recently paid a lot of money in a shady Tijuana adoption transaction and she wound up getting ripped off.
by Stork Vangutenberg February 20, 2008
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When your birth parents give you away and get selected to a different family to live with legally.
Vincent’s parents hated him so he got adopted
by Urfluff May 24, 2020
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Adopted: You
mom: your adopted
kid: i want to see my real parents then
now you have to spend thousands of dollars of money because your kid want to see their parents who didnt even take care of them their whole life ;)
by Troll12345654321 November 11, 2018
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1 The condition of being abandoned by one's parents, and selected by another family, and brought in as their own child.

2 An insult commonly used by junior high atendees. Often used with were.
1.) Amanda got adopted by another family. Poor girl.

2.)
Kid1: You were adopted!
Kid2: Ow. My ego.
by Oddzeh September 13, 2005
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A less painful, more humane alternative to abortion (for the baby, that is). Recent studies show that abortion actually IS painful to the fetus being aborted. Therefore, in order to avoid having a baby, one should do one of the following:

1. Let yourself give birth to the baby, then simply put it up for adoption.

2. Make it easy for yourself simply by not fucking your boyfriend until you're ready to support a child and have a new husband. 10/1 chances your so-called "lover" will want nothing to do with you after he finds out the news.
Rachael may have been dumb enough to fuck that asswipe, but at least she's giving her unwanted baby a chance by putting it up for adoption instead of aborting.
by ScYtH August 17, 2004
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taking a familyless child into one's home and family, to care for it as one's own.
A lot of anti-choicers think that people should opt for adoption rather than abortion, but how many of those up-for-adoption children have the pro-lifers adopted? The problem with adoption is that thanks to 'great' innovations such as IVF and other means of forcing the body to become pregnant when it clearly thinks that it is a bad idea (i.e., harmful recessive genes, repeated miscarriages, etc.), people no longer have to resort to adoption to get the child they so badly want since they'd rather have a child of their own. Out of those few who do adopt, they usually only adopt healthy newborn babies, while handicapped and older children must grow up without families. There are far more children who are up for adoption than who are being adopted... sad but true.
by Child Hatter May 27, 2003
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