1), which implies(explicitly asserts) that homosexual parents are unfavorable choices for adopted children. After Chinese government's announcement, more countries chose to ban homosexual adoption. For instance, in, 2014, Russia's legislation explicitly banned international homosexual adoption. In order to eliminate the possibilities that homosexuals successfully adopt children from Russia by concealing their sexual orientations, Russian government even prevents single-parent adoption for individual living in countries legally recognizing homosexual marriage("Russia Anti-LGBT adoption", 2014, para.1). .
3. In spite that these countries all explained that their policies are to protect the best interest of adopted children, these legal patchwork, in fact, shut the door to a large untapped pool of potential adoptive parents when roughly 153 million orphans waiting for care and attention required for healthy development (World Orphans, n.d., para.1). According to Williams Institute and the Urban Institute, around 8 percent same-sex couples lived with adopted children in America from 2000 to 2002. The number of homosexual adoptive parents has increased dramatically, up to 19 percent of homosexual couples living with adopted children in 2009 (Tavernise, 2011, para.3). In addition, in 2007, more than 50 percent of gays and over 40 percent lesbians, which, in total, around 2 million homosexuals in the USA want to adopt a child (Pappas, 2012, p.2). More importantly, over 50 percent of the children adopted by homosexual couples are special need children, possibly either because homosexuals are discriminated so that children with serious physical, emotional, or behavior problems are more likely to be matched with homosexuals, or because homosexuals are more willing to accept children with difficulties (Pappas, 2012, p2; Brooks and Goldberg, 2001, p.121). Moreover, research conducted in the USA and Britain all found that gay and lesbian couples are more likely to adopt older children who are hard to be adopted (Golombok et al.
