For my persuasive essay I am considering writing about how parents should tell the adoptive child that he or she was adopted. Not telling can lead to bad relationships between the child and the adoptive parents or worse behavioral problems with the child. My father was adopted as a baby and though technically I wasn’t, I feel like I am missing part of my family. I feel like part of my true history is missing. So I felt like writing about something that I had a close relation with and that I could connect with through personal experience. The audience for my essay would be adoptive parents who are debating whether or not to tell their child. I found an article about a boy who burned down the house of his adoptive parents when he discovered on his own that he was adopted so that he could go search for his biological parents.