Identical Strangers

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Identical Stranger: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited is a 2007 memoir written by Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein and published by Random House. The twins were given by their mentally ill mother and separated as babies, in part, to participate in twin studies. They were adopted by separate families who were not told they were twins. As soon as they met for the first time in 2004 at the age of 35, they started writing books. Of the 13 children involved in the study, three pairs of twins and a set of triplets had found each other. One or two pairs of twins may still not know they have identical twin sisters.

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Twin studies

Viola Bernard, a famous New York psychologist, has persuaded Louise Wise Services, the adoption agency, to send twins to different homes, without telling their respective adoptive parents that children will be separated. Then, researchers quietly follow their progress. He believed that identical twins would be better off falsifying individual identities if they were separate. By the time the twins began investigating adoption, Bernard was dead, but the twins found New York University psychiatrist Peter Neubauer studying the twins.

The twin studies they follow are never completed. The practice of separating twins at birth ended in New York state in 1980, a year after Bernard's study ended. Neubauer is reported to have locked down Yale University and sealed his studies until 2066. He realized that public opinion would be very contrary to the research he decided not to publish. Attempts to have Yale University release records by sisters and other twin brothers have failed.

Neubauer's research differs from all the other twin studies because he follows the twins since the baby. The biggest surprise came from Bernard's research is that twins raised apart are no more different from those raised together. This shows the difference children are not faked by their families but by other more subtle factors.

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See also

• Twin studies

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References

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External links

• "Identical Twins Unite". CNN . December 2007 . Retrieved 2007-12-05 . Ã, [Video]

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