Deliberately Divided - Inside the Controversial Study of Twins and Triplets Adopted Apart (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2021
Authors:	Nancy L. Segal
Dimensions:	237 x 161 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	520
ISBN-13:	978-1-5381-3285-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Child & developmental psychology Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Family & other relationships > Adoption & tracing birth parents Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > Adoption & fostering Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Age groups > Children
LSN:	1-5381-3285-0
Barcode:	9781538132852

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