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>> i would just like to show you guys a clip. it's lawrence pearlman 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? >> like a lab rat. >> it only makes it that much -- just makes it -- >> that much worse!

>> i just wanted 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. it -- it only just makes it that -- it just only -- it just makes it -- >> that much wo...

Results were never published. all i have is my little tiny piece. it is a mystery. it is a huge loss, all of this is just buried in these archives. >> it's like some people have speculated that the purpose of this study, the ultimate purpose was looking at mental health. >> there was never a mention of the 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 want to understand parenting practices and how it

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 up in their families with an adopted sister. all the girls, now 21 years old. >> the triplets. they all had an ...

>> good to see you. >> good to see you. >> i just want to show you guys. >> what were the findings of the study? i have no idea because they were never published. we were looking for differences in parenting. we want to understand parenting practices and how it would effect the development of the triplets. they were placed in families where there was an older adopted child. it was part of the design. >> how do you feel watching