Like others you are missing the point. It is not unethical for scientists to study spearated twins, it is unethical for twins to be separated to conduct a scientific study.
Exactly right. The article I posted was not decrying separating twins for adoption. It was decrying it becoming an EXPERIMENT while doing it. The experiment was the bad thing, the fact that twins were separated wasn’t even focused on at all.
I agree, jwalsh07! It just seems that, in this case, they would've been separated, anyway. Here's information about the adoption agency from the other article:
"The twins found that he was willingly aided by the Louise Wise adoption agency that handled both their adoptions. Viola Bernard, a child psychologist and consultant to the agency, had firmly believed that twins should be raised separately to improve their psychological development, and that dressing and treating them the same retarded their minds. Separating twins at birth was ended in the state of New York in 1980, a year after the study ended."
That's why I think the adoption agency is to blame in this story. For the record, I don't think siblings should be separated, whether they're twins or not. I'm glad that old policy was ended.