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Deliberately Divided - Inside the Controversial Study of Twins and Triplets Adopted Apart (Hardcover)
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Deliberately Divided - Inside the Controversial Study of Twins and Triplets Adopted Apart (Hardcover)
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Takes the first in-depth look at the New York City adoption agency
that separated twins and triplets in the 1960s, and the
controversial and disturbing study that tracked the children's
development while never telling their adoptive parents that they
were raising a "singleton twin." In the 1960s, New York City's
Child Development Center launched a study designed to track the
development of twins and triplets given up for adoption and raised
by different families. The controversial and disturbing catch? None
of the adoptive parents had been told that they were raising a
twin-the study's investigators insisted that the separation be kept
secret. Here, Nancy Segal reveals the inside stories of the agency
that separated the twins, and the collaborating psychiatrists who,
along with their cadre of colleagues, observed the twins until they
turned twelve. This study, far outside the mainstream of scientific
twin research, was not well-known to scholars or the general public
until it caught the attention of documentary filmmakers whose
recent films, Three Identical Strangers and The Twinning Reaction,
left viewers shocked, angered, saddened and wanting to know more.
Interviews with colleagues, friends and family members of the
agency's psychiatric consultant and the study's principal
investigator, as well as a former agency administrator, research
assistants, journalists, ethicists, attorneys, and-most
importantly--the twins and families who were unwitting participants
in this controversial study, are riveting. Through records, letters
and other documents, Segal further discloses the investigators'
attempts to enagge other agencies in separating twins, their
efforts to avoid media exposure, their worries over informed
consent issues in the 1970s and the steps taken toward avoiding
lawsuits while hoping to enjoy the fruits of publication. Segals'
spellbinding stories of the twins' separation, loss and
reunification told in Deliberately Divided offer readers the
behind-the-scenes details that, until now, were lost to the
archives of history.
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