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Eventually, the families realized that the adoption agency had not told them that each child had two twin brothers. With a little research, they learned that separation was part of an experiment about the eternal debate about nature`s influence over education. One of the brothers had been placed in a wealthy family, one in a middle-class family and one in a working-class family. They were monitored and tested several times during their development. And it turned out that the experiment also involved several pairs of identical twins who were also adopted without their families knowing about their siblings. Some of the twins eventually crossed paths; Some were never reunited. Step 1 of the AMS asks: Who is likely to be harmed and how? Dr. Elliott lists ten moral rules to apply in this investigation. Seven are portrayed negatively: Do not kill, cause pain, deactivate, deprive freedom, deprive pleasure, deceive or cheat.
Three are formulated as positive duties: keep your promises, obey the law, do your duty. Applied to the triplets, it seems obvious that the triplets at least suffered damage. They were deprived of the pleasure of knowing and loving their brothers and sisters. The film contains clues that all three had mental health issues as teenagers. The theory of families is that they suffered from separation anxiety caused by being separated after being in the same womb for nine months and another six before being adopted in the same crib. The triplets were also deceived into thinking they had no blood siblings. The experiment certainly hurt. The brothers have spent the last few years dealing with anger – anger at the fate that has befallen them. What started as a wonderful fairy tale – three long-lost brothers stumble upon each other by pure accident! – has since developed into a dark history of deception and inhumanity.
That`s the story at the heart of “Three Identical Strangers,” a just-released documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January. (It debuted with impressive ticket sales in its very limited weekend release.) Assuming you`ve seen the movie before, you know (as I didn`t see it when I saw it) that it`s the fascinating story of three triplets who miraculously found each other in 1980, 19 years after being adopted into three different families who weren`t told the babies had two identical siblings. The reunion scenes are heartwarming when we see the brothers fall in love and marvel at their similarities, even after being separated for nearly two decades. The drama follows. They drink too low at the lowest point of glory. They open a restaurant called Triplet`s, which starts well but creates pressure. The three married. One of them commits suicide. A successful documentary needs a gripping story and Three Identical Strangers tells a moving story: identical triplets separated by adoption at birth. They find each other and discover that they see each other exactly the same way and have so much in common! Then the story takes a dark turn.
This is where the so-called “villain” Peter Neubauer comes in. But this story is really more fiction than truth. The film ignores critical contextual information and omits evidence. The film, directed by British filmmaker Tim Wardle, follows how triplets met by chance in 1980 and immediately became media darlings. They were interviewed by Tom Brokaw and Phil Donahue, wore matching outfits and answered questions in a strangely synchronized manner. The trio bonded so quickly that it was almost as if they hadn`t been raised by three different adoptive families. They moved into an apartment together in New York and then opened a SoHo restaurant called – what else? — the triplets, which attracted dozens of tourists. Meanwhile, Peter Neubauer, psychiatrist and director of the Child Development Center in New York, came up with an idea that he believed would shed light on the great scientific debate about what made people who they were: their genes or the environment in which they grew up.
Why not study identical twins and triplets who have been given up for adoption and placed with different families? According to Stephen Novak, director of archives and special collections at Columbia University`s Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library, a deed of gift — the contract that transfers ownership of concrete or intellectual property — is a legal document. Sealing documents is not an uncommon practice in private collections, Novak explained, and usually refers to privacy concerns or the donor who feels uncomfortable revealing something to the public. Columbia hosts Bernard`s papers, a small portion of which is related to the study — but contains no observations or individual records — and is sealed until 2021. Almost all of his other papers are currently accessible. This week marks the Dutch premiere of the documentary Three Identical Strangers, a shocking documentary about identical triplets Edward Galland, David Kellman and Robert Shafran, who were unaware of each other`s existence but met by chance. [Spoiler alert by the end of the article.] Unbeknownst to the triplets and their adoptive families, they were separated as part of a scientific study of nature in relation to education. We spoke with ethicist Dr. Mariëtte van den Hoven (philosophy), who specializes in professional ethics, and Professor Dr. Catrin Finkenauer (Interdisciplinary Social Science) of Dynamics of Youth about this documentary and ethics in science.