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 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.
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 thejewish board respectively. in a comment to us, thejewish board strongly distanced themselves from the research. there are fraternal twins separated but not studied. allison and her fraternal twin sister michelle were also split up by the agency. they met by chance as adults, age 5a. i ve been talking to a new york times reporter, and she said you really should take this, because this is maybe bigger than you. this is my first conversation with her. it feels like yesterday.
they were not told the real purpose of the study. they were told only that thier child was in a 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, was a psych major, - and she knew the importance of child development studies. the fact that it was a twin
and friend, viola bernard, who was the adviser to the adoption agency, called louise wise services. so she placed a set of twins in different families back in the 19505. when she told neubauer about it he said, they must be studied. the scientists, you know, they were the masterminds of this study, neubauer and bernard. kathy and her sister, lori, 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
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 spence chapin and thejewish board respectively. in a comment to us, thejewish board strongly distance themselves from the research. there are fraternal twins separated but not studied. allison and her fraternal twin sister michelle were also split up by the agency. they met by chance as adults, age 5a. i ve been talking to a new york times reporter, and she said you really should take this, because this is maybe bigger than you. this is my first conversation with her. it feels like yesterday. i really think we owe a lot of people some help with this too, it was such a wrong that they did. as the adoption agency began to split up twins, social workers within the agency voiced objections. so, even though viola bernard