that was part of the design. how do you feel watching that? like a lab rat. it it only just makes it that it just only it just makes it that much worse. duplicitous. they re not just studying the kids but they re studying the parents. so they did, in fact, know the parenting style of each parent. they knew exactly who they had chosen to place each one of us with when they called the gallands and the kellmans and the shafrans. in terms of how they parented their children, the three families were quite, quite
had suffered from depression. so this is the letter that i received from louise wise services. you were born at 12:51 p.m. on october 9, 1968, to a 29-year-old jewish single woman. she was very intelligent with a high iq. she entered college on a merit scholarship, but emotional problems interrupted her attendance. she had a history of voluntary hospitalizations for emotional problems. although i have not been able to locate the original medical reports, secondary sources noted that your mother s diagnosis was schizophrenia. it was really disturbing to read that my birth mother had been in and out of institutions. i started finding out more about the other twins and triplets in the study. and it turns out that not only
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.
it referenced this secret study in which identical siblings had been separated. i was shocked and intrigued. they were separating identical babies at birth. for the purpose of the scientific experiment. and these babies had all come from one adoption agency in new york city. it was called louise wise services. it s the last minute gift sale. get up to 40% off storewide. ( ) this is how we shine. at zales. the diamond store.
it was a that was memorable. all of our parents came away from that meeting angry. the parents went to some pretty prestigious new york law firms, and initially they were met with a lot of enthusiasm. and invariably within a short period of time were told, there s a conflict and they could not take the case. they said, we have a number of associates who are trying to adopt through louise wise, and we don t want to ruin their chances. so that lawsuit was out. we were too happy being together to be that angry. we didn t understand it. and to a degree, we almost