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 a mother bear and her cub?" Parenthood has no race, religion or even ethnicity for that matter. If a woman is giving her all to support and nurture her adopted child, Why should her race matter?
             Taylor was the adoptee mother to Turtle. Turtle was full Cherokee and once belonged to the Cherokee tribe. "There is the child's best interest and the tribes' best interest, I'm trying to think of both things." It is true today, a remnant of these original inhabitants of the U.S. remain- just 0.8% of the United States, but the question still remains "should we remove a child from a loving home because of ethnic differences?" The answer is no.
             After a 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.
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