According to Adoption and Foster Care Analyzes and Reporting System, 134,000 children were waiting to be adopted and only 29,435 of these children were adopted in the year 2000. If interracial adoption became illegal, How many of these children would be adopted? In Pigs in Heaven, Kingsolver tried to show the importance of the ethnic backgrounds and the power of love between a mother and her adopted Cherokee child. “ You know that thing they say about getting between …showed first 75 words of 268 total…

…showed last 75 words of 268 total…parent has adopted a child and is nurturing the child in a well manner there is no reason to remove that child from their newfound home because of ethnic differences. Pigs in Heaven expresses two important themes, a mother devotion to keeping her non-maternal child and the other, the pride of a Native American tribe. A parent should not be denied of loving and raising an adopted child if they are of different ethnic descent.