Why the 'perfect' nature vs nurture experiment went wrong

Part 2: An ill-fated study from the outset

In the 1960s an adoption agency in New York deliberately split up infant twins and placed them in different families as part of a controversial study. As the experiement came to a close, it ran into issues. Some families were upset by the study and didn't want to do it any longer, and funding issues emerged. Part 2 of this series looks at what went wrong, and why the study was poorly thought out from the outset. 

Producer & Reporter: Melissa Hogenboom

Production: Pomona Pictures

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23 August 2022