Deliberately divided : inside the controversial study of twins and triplets adopted apart /
Segal, Nancy L., 1951-
Deliberately divided : inside the controversial study of twins and triplets adopted apart / Nancy L. Segal. - xvi, 501 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-488) and index.
Illustrious and ignoble: twin studies -- Policies and people: separated by design -- How did it work?: inside the twin study -- Twin brothers with twin sisters: familiar strangers -- "The biggest thing in my life": Kathy and Betsy: -- 60 Minutes: media inquiry -- Dancing solo: Anne and Susan -- Identical, but not the same: Melanie and Ellen -- Parallel paths: Howard and Doug -- "Three versions of the very same song": identical triplets -- Twinless again: Sharon Morello -- Unpublished or unavailable?: in search of the findings -- Yale University Press: the book that never was -- Not just a doppelgänger?: Justin Goldberg -- Artists from afar: Paula and Elyse -- Opportunities lost: Paula and Marjorie -- Fraternal, almost identical: Michele and Allison -- Letters of protest: Oscars and Emmys -- Professional standards: codes of conduct, legalities, and moralities -- Over or unfinished?: continuing controversies.
"In Deliberately Divided, Nancy L. Segal revisits a controversial study that tracked the development of separated twins and triplets. None of the adoptive parents were told that they were raising a multiple birth baby. The truth was shocking for these parents and twins, many of whom have shared their unimaginable stories for the first time"--
1538132850 9781538132852
2021042838
Adopted children--Research--United States.
Adoption--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
Separation (Psychology)--United States.
Twins--Research--United States.
HQ777.35 / .S438 2021
306.8750720973
Deliberately divided : inside the controversial study of twins and triplets adopted apart / Nancy L. Segal. - xvi, 501 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-488) and index.
Illustrious and ignoble: twin studies -- Policies and people: separated by design -- How did it work?: inside the twin study -- Twin brothers with twin sisters: familiar strangers -- "The biggest thing in my life": Kathy and Betsy: -- 60 Minutes: media inquiry -- Dancing solo: Anne and Susan -- Identical, but not the same: Melanie and Ellen -- Parallel paths: Howard and Doug -- "Three versions of the very same song": identical triplets -- Twinless again: Sharon Morello -- Unpublished or unavailable?: in search of the findings -- Yale University Press: the book that never was -- Not just a doppelgänger?: Justin Goldberg -- Artists from afar: Paula and Elyse -- Opportunities lost: Paula and Marjorie -- Fraternal, almost identical: Michele and Allison -- Letters of protest: Oscars and Emmys -- Professional standards: codes of conduct, legalities, and moralities -- Over or unfinished?: continuing controversies.
"In Deliberately Divided, Nancy L. Segal revisits a controversial study that tracked the development of separated twins and triplets. None of the adoptive parents were told that they were raising a multiple birth baby. The truth was shocking for these parents and twins, many of whom have shared their unimaginable stories for the first time"--
1538132850 9781538132852
2021042838
Adopted children--Research--United States.
Adoption--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
Separation (Psychology)--United States.
Twins--Research--United States.
HQ777.35 / .S438 2021
306.8750720973