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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 up in their families with an adopted sister. all the girls now 21 years old. >> the triplets. they all had an older sibling. they were placed in fami...

>> good to see you. >> good to see you. >> i'd just like 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 wise. that was part of the design. >> how do you feel watching that? >> like a lab rat.

Study? i have no idea because i left the study after ten months, and the results were never published. all i had is my little tiny piece. it's a mystery. it's a huge loss. all this important scientific data is just buried in these archives. >> so some people have speculated that the purpose of the study, ultimate purpose, was looking at mental health. >> there was -- there was never a mention of mental health of the biological parents while i was in the study. we were not interested in mental health. that's not what we were interested in. we were looking for differences in parenting. we wanted...

I left the study after ten months, and the results were never published. all i had is my little tiny piece. it's a mystery. it's a huge loss. all this important scientific data is just buried in these archives. >> so some people have speculated that the purpose of the study, ultimate purpose, was looking at mental health. >> there was -- there was never a mention of mental health of the biological parents while i was in the study. 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 pract...

Parenting practices and how it would affect development. >> so you're saying they're interested in more the family dynamics but they couldn't have known that. they didn't know how the family was going interact with this newly adopted child. the only way they could possibly know about the family dynamics is if they already had a child based in that family. >> another astonishing coincidence in this story is each of the brothers grew up with an adopted sister, all the girls now 21 years old. >> the triplets, they all had an older sibling. they were placed in families where there was an older ado...