Dr. Nancy Siegel

I would never publish anything from them.

If I did, I would have to get the twins' consent.

But there's nothing in there that I think is reasonable to report.

We know that twins are aware of one another, even as young as four months old.

There was a wonderful case study that looked at twins where one was taken away to another room and the other was looking around and looking around.

So we don't really know exactly when the bond begins.

It's probably pretty early.

Viola Bernard did say that if the twins show what's called the twinning reaction, and that is kind of an awareness and interaction

between twins, she said if they showed that, then they would not be separated.

Well, she didn't follow her advice.

There was a pair of twins who stayed together in the same room, maybe even the same crib, until six months.

And the way it was described was that they were the most permanent object in each other's lives, because they were moved to foster care here, another home here, back to a hospital here.

So they moved around a lot, but they were with each other all the time.

And then they were separated.

So she didn't even follow her own rules.

It's hard to know what she was talking about.

She claims in her writings and in her interview that I heard that the child development literature at the time said that twins are better off apart for developing individuality.

But there is no such literature that shows that.

I've looked at all the studies they've cited and they cited some of them incorrectly.

It's just a mess.