they were not told the real purpose of the study. they were told only that thier child was in a child development study, was already enrolled, and it was obvious if they did not accept the study, they did not accept researchers coming to the home periodically, they probably would not get this child. they all had an older sibling who had been adopted from louise wise and that was the hook they had in terms of getting parents to agree, because they had an older sibling adopted there was a sense of how confident the parents were. remember, these were parents desperate to have children. as one mother put it, i would learn to fly if i could have a child , and so they could learn more about their child and psychology and adoption. my mother, she agreed, she was a psych major, i and she knew the importance| of child development studies. the fact that it was a twin study, they were not - told the truth. the study soon run into issues.
were deliberately divided as infants as part of the research programme. they only met as teenagers by chance. we were really deprived of. being sisters, let alone twins. i think it was just - horrible what they did. we met with dr viola bernard to find out why they split us up and she just kept saying, they were satisfying, you know, two families who could not have children. we thought it would be better when it comes to competition, for twins to have their own identity. and not grow up together. parents would dress them alike and treat them exactly the same and in her terminology, shared an ego. so she did not think that was very healthy. they said it was backed by the child development literature at the time, but i can tell you, honestly, there is no such child development literature in existence. they never named studies. the louise wise services and thejewish board of guardians, both once well respected entities,
split up identical and fraternal twins, and place the infants in different families. the adoptive parents were never told that their children had siblings. any louise wise adoptee from the 605 has every right to think perhaps they have a twin. the separated twins were placed in a controversial study to explore what makes us who we are, and how much is defined by nature versus nurture. but at what cost? it s so emotional for me. what they did was so| unethical, so amoral. stories of twins have long captured human imagination. there is something beguiling about having an identical copy of yourself, and the resulting bond that would create. hi. hello.
putin did not attend. now on bbc news, split at birth: twins divided. in the 1960s, an adoption agency split up infant twins and placed them in different families as part of a controversial study, having a seismic impact on many of their lives. february of 2018, there was a 2020 episode about louise wise agency separating identical twins back in the mid 60s, and my older sister who s adopted, called me and said, can you imagine if either of us was a twin? and i said, well, that s ridiculous. and i remember getting a shiver all over my body thinking, wow, what if this was real? in the 1960s, an adoption agency in new york, the louise wise services, began a policy to deliberately
teenagers by chance. we were really deprived of. being sisters, let alone twins. i think it was just - horrible what they did. we met with dr viola bernard to find out why they split us up and she just kept saying, they were satisfying, you know, two families who could not have children. we thought it would be better when it comes to competition, for twins to have their own identity. and not grow up together. parents would dress them alike and treat them exactly the same and in her terminology, shared an ego. so she did not think that was very healthy. they said it was backed by the child development literature at the time, but i can tell you, honestly, there is no such child development literature in existence. they never named studies. the louise wise services and thejewish board of guardians, both once well respected entities, have long since shutdown, passing on the adoption and research records to spencer chapin and