and damaging to individuals. after an offer to pursue a career, lawrence perlman resigned resigned from the programme afterjust 10 months. i wondered what had been the outcome of the study. years went by and i never heard of any reports. that was surprising, because this was such a unique study. i became an investigative reporter, essentially. and began to track down people who knew anything about the study. eventually, perlman would meet psychologist and twin specialist, segal, and together they would confront a 91 year old neubauer at his office on madison avenue. nancy had asked, how they could justify separating these twins without informing the parents? and he defended the practice, saying that, again, it was viola bernard s idea. he was not going to acknowledge any responsibility for having done anything wrong so he just
they split us up to study us. we were part of this child study. nature versus nurture. lawrence perlman was briefly involved in the original study as a young postgraduate. he is one of the few researchers who have spoken publicly about their experiences. ijoined a study in 1968. i was 24. myjob was to organise the data and it was a wealth of data. so the idea was to try to tease out what differences there might be as a result of the different families that they were raised in. thus, to be able to understand the relative contribution of hereditary versus environment. part of what we did during the time i was on the study, which was maybe ten months, was to go and visit the twins and i would test the child and do some film samples of them. they would give me these exams, ithese tests and would be filming |
practice of the time. they split us up to study us. we were part of this child study. nature versus nurture. lawrence perlman was briefly involved in the original study as a young postgraduate. he is one of the few researchers who have spoken publicly about their experiences. ijoined the study in 1968. i was 24. myjob was to organise the data and there was a wealth of data. so the idea was to try to tease out what differences there might be as a result of the different families that they were raised in. thus, be able to understand the relative contribution of hereditary versus environment. part of what we did during the time i was on the study, which was maybe ten months, was to go and visit the twins and i would test the child and do some film samples of them.
Rabbi Jonathan Perlman: “I think I took for granted that this is just what parents did they raised their children and took the lead in their communities."
the triplets. they all had an older sibling. they were placed in families where there was an older adopted child that had been placed by louise wise. that was part of the design. i want to show you guys a clip. it s lawrence perlman, who was a researcher on the study. what were the findings of the study? i have no idea, because they were never published. we were looking for differences in parenting. we wanted to understand parenting practices and how it would affect development. the triplets were placed in families where there was an older adopted child that had been placed by louise wise.