Once again, lady p, it has been the common and nearly universal practice among ALL ADOPTION AGENCIES in many areas to "seal the records" on adopted children. There is NO EVIDENCE GIVEN that this was done because these kids were being studied, or that any "special treatment of the records" was because of the study.

That was, and unfortunately IS in many areas, a very common practice.

In the case of one adoptee personally known to me, who found her birth mother within the last ten years when she was about the same age as these two are now, it was necessary for her to obtain a court order for release of the records in order for her to find any information on her birth parents. Inital requests for the required order were refused until she came up with a show cause statement to justify the release of specific information, since adoption records are NOT PUBLIC RECORDS in many places.

Invoking a fictitious "mad scientist" to explain why, in one case, the same thing happened that happens in nearly all similar cases, is simply "decorating the story" for the sake of sensationalism.

These girls may, themselves, have decided that "the psychiatrist" was "to be blamed" for "something." Especially in the case of someone who learns later in life that they were adopted, it can be very difficult to adapt to the new information, and unfounded or illogical blame placing is fairly common. The usual circumstances of such adoptive placements simply do NOT JUSTIFY the assumptions mostly implied without evidence in this story.

John