Should Adopted Children Know Their Birth Parents? Li Mei is twenty, a university student. When she was eighteen, at her birthday party she was shocked to learn that she was actually adopted by her present parents. However, she gradually accepted the fact and understood her parents. The case about Li Mei proves that adopted children should have free access to information about their birth parents when they turn eighteen. The apparent reason is that after fully grow up children would be able to accept the truth that they were abandoned by their birth parents. It’s absolutely true that almost everyone would be more mature and reasonable when they turn eighteen, an age of transition from child to adult. They would also understand and tolerate others, so foster parents should seize the chance to tell the truth instead of keeping it in mind. In addition to the mental aspect, the rights of adopted children should be considered. As we know, everyone has a strong desire to know where he was from and why he came to the world. If he cannot find the answers, he will feel pain and grow up with it. So foster parents tell their adopted children the truth for not only avoiding the risk of revealing it accidently someday but also respecting children’s rights. Finally, the most important reason adopted children should be informed of the truth is that foster parents and birth parents are both important to them. Birth parents brought them to the world while foster parents brought them up, so adopted children can never give up either of them. Meanwhile, if foster parents insist on keeping the truth, children will not be thankful but angry with the lie when they know the truth. Therefore, what a stable family relationship need is love from parents and thankfulness from children and even kinship cannot break the relationship. Then what can stop adopted children having free access to information about their birth parents?