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To conduct the study, the researchers surveyed 549 participants who are parents of at least two children between the ages of five and 18

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>> the triplets. they all had an older sibling. they were placed in families where there was an older adopted child that had been placed by louise wise. that was part of the design. >> i want to show you guys a clip. it's lawrence perlman, who was a researcher on the study. >> what were the findings of the study? i have no idea, because they were never published. we were looking for differences in parenting. we wanted to understand parenting practices and how it would affect development. the triplets were placed in families where there was an older adopted child that had been placed by louise ...

We were not interested in mental health. that's not what we were interested in. we were looking for differences in parenting. we wanted to understand parenting practices and how they would affect development. >> so you're saying they were interested more in the family dynamics? but they couldn't have known that, they didn't know how the family's going to interact with this newly adopted child. the only way they could possibly know about the family dynamics was that they already had a child placed in that family. >> another astonishing coincidence in this story is that each of the brothers grew...

For these parents. >> i remember a convaersation with a family member that said have you considered doing more manly things with kit and less nurturing things? at that moment, it was kind of a well wait a minute, what am i trying to do here and what is really wrong with this? >> reporter: they decided the right course was love your kid. they let kit be kit. >> we lost our friends when kit first came out and we lost family. >> reporter: the family kept all of this a secret from most people. for a simple reason. safety. >> you out a kid before they're ready, you're subjecting them to that sort o...