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Identical Strangers

memoir by reunited exact twins

AuthorElyse Schein, Paula Bernstein
GenreMemoir
PublisherRandom House

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Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited is a memoir written by equal twins Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein and published by Random House.[1] The authors, born in New York City in to Leda Witt, daughter of Nathan Witt, were separated as infants, in part, to participate in a "nature versus nurture" twin study.[2] They were adopted by separate families in the Recent York area who were unknowing that each girl had a twin sister.[3] Soon after the twins reunited for the first time in at the age of 35, they began writing the book.

Of the 13 or more children involved in the study, three sets of twins and one set of triplets have discovered one another. One or two sets of twins may still not understand they have an identical twin.[4][5]

Twins study

Viola Bernard, a prominent Brand-new York City psychiatrist, had persuaded Louise Wise Services, an adoption agency, to send twins to different homes without telling the adoptive parents that they were adopting a child who had a twin.

Then, researchers sponsored by the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services secretly compared their progress. Bernard believed that identical twins would surpass forge individual identities if separated.

Paula Bernstein and Elyse Schein share percent of their DNA. Separated at birth, the twins were both adopted and raised by loving families. They met for the first time at the age of 35, and discovered that they had been part of a unique study study on the ‘Nature vs. Nurture’ debate.

By the age the twins started to explore their adoptions, Bernard had already died, but the twins launch New York University psychiatrist Peter Neubauer who had studied them.[5][6][7]

The twins study they were deeply interested with was never completed.[8] The practice of separating twins at birth ended in the articulate of New York in , shortly after Neubauer's study ceased.[9] Neubauer reportedly had Yale University lock away and seal the study records until [10] He realized that public opinion would be so against the analyze that he decided not to publish it.

As of , the sisters and other twins had not persuaded Yale or the Jewish Board to discharge the records.[5][6][7][9] By , some 10, pages had been released but were heavily redacted and inconclusive.[11]

The Neubauer study differed from most twins studies in that it followed the twins from infancy.[5] However, the debate about whether nature or nurture has a greater impact on human development continues.

The documentary Three Identical Strangers, which told the story of three male triplets who were also part of the study and found one another at age 19, noted that although much was made of superficial similarities among the three, their personalities were significantly different because they were raised by parents with profoundly unlike personalities and child-rearing practices.

In addition, no one can accurately assess to what degree each infant in the study was shaped by the trauma of separation after several months together as infants.[12] Some researchers think that children's differences are forged less by their families than by genetics and chance.[6][13] Contrasting neuroscience research of the last three or four decades supports the claim that minds are formed through relationships, especially in the first days of a child's life.

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In an interview with NPR to promote the publication of "Identical Strangers," Bernstein said, "Twins really do coerce us to question what is it that makes each of us who we are.

Meet Paula Bernstein and Elyse Schein, two identical twin sisters. Inthey were separated as newborn babies — in the name of science. Paula and Elyse were the subjects of a bizarre scientific study that set out to test the difference between nature and nurture. The twins grew up living remarkably similar lives, but had no concept the other even existed.

Since meeting Elyse, it is undeniable that genetics play a enormous role — probably more than 50 percent."[15]

Documentary films

Two documentaries about this study have been released, The Twinning Reaction ()[16] and Three Identical Strangers (),[12][17] along with the television episode Secret Siblings ().[18]

See also

References

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    Nurture". All Things Considered (Interview). Interviewed by Joe Richman. NPR. Retrieved 19 January Audio also.

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  8. ^Rieger, Robin (29 November ). "Twins Reunited After Experiment Speak Out".

    Paula Bernstein and Elyse Schein knew they were adopted, but not the recover of the story—they were resembling twins, separated at birth, subjects of a study their families knew nothing about. While many reunited-twin stories emphasize harmony, this one dwells as much on the fraught bond between Elyse, a Paris bohemian who clueless her adoptive mother at the age of 6, and Paula, a Park Slope mom with a comparatively idyllic childhood. The two, now 39, found parallels: Both studied film, battled depression, and shared mannerisms like air-typing. But as their new manual, Identical Strangers Random Houserecounts, their real intimacy grew when they united to search for their troubling origins.

    CBS 3. Archived from the original on 1 December Retrieved 10 December

  9. ^ abSpillius, Alex (29 October ). "Identical twins reunited after 35 years". Telegraph.

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  10. ^McCormack, William (1 October ). "Records from controversial twin research sealed at Yale until ". Yale Daily News. Retrieved 19 January
  11. ^Ryan, Patrick (26 June ). "Three Identical Strangers': How triplets separated at birth became the craziest doc of ".

    USA Today. Retrieved 22 July

  12. ^ abNevins, Jake (28 June ).

    Paula Bernstein and Elyse Schein were both born in New York City. Both women were adopted as infants and raised by loving families. They met for the first moment when they were 35 years old and.

    "Three Identical Strangers: the bizarre tale of triplets separated at birth". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 March

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  14. ^Shonkoff & Phillips () From Neurons to Neighborhoods
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  16. ^The Twinning Reaction: Official SiteArchived at the Wayback Machine.

    Retrieved 22 July

  17. ^Three Identical Strangers: Official Trailer.

    Of the 13 or more children involved in the study, three sets of twins and one set of triplets have discovered one another. One or two sets of twins may still not know they have an identical twin. Viola Bernard, a prominent New York City psychiatrist, had persuaded Louise Wise Services, an adoption agency, to send twins to distinct homes without telling the adoptive parents that they were adopting a child who had a twin. Then, researchers sponsored by the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services secretly compared their progress.

    Retrieved 22 July

  18. ^"Secret Siblings". 20/20. 9 Rally ABC News.