, 2014, p.457-458; Pappas, 2012, p.1, 2). All evidence demonstrates that a huge pool of prospective homosexual adoptive parents can meet need of orphans waiting for adoption. Hence, homosexuals should be allowed for legal adoption, because they can pull these children from unstable foster care and orphanages and provide safe and loving home for these orphans.
4. Gay adoptive parents can be as competent at parenting as heterosexual adoptive parents and lesbian adoptive mothers. Mothers are assumed to be more competent in parenting than fathers, because their female characteristics enable them to become more nurturing (Golombok et al., 2014, p.456).Therefore, critics against homosexual adoption typically doubt parenting ability of gay adoptive parents. In addition, based on observation that, in heterosexual parents headed families, mothers generally are more engaged in child care than fathers. Critics assume that gay fathers experience less increase in parenting skill as heterosexual fathers. However, this assumption has significant limitation, because when sexual orientation being considered, the differences between genders on perceived parenting skill decrease dramatically(Goldberg & Smith, 2009, p.867). One possible reason is that homosexual parents are more likely to equally share child-care tasks than heterosexual parents do (Farr & Patterson, 2014, p.1233) Therefore, both of homosexual fathers dedicate more time in child care than heterosexual fathers do. The potential consequence that heterosexual fathers have less opportunity to improve their parenting ability is not usually faced by gay fathers, because gay fathers dedicate more in child care than heterosexual fathers (Goldberg & Smith, 2009, p.865). So it might not be reasonable to suspect gay fathers' parenting abilities just based on the fact that heterosexual fathers contribute less in child care.
5. In fact, gay fathers generally become more competent in parenting than heterosexual father.
