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The Twins Foundation: Twins Take Up the Challenge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Kay Cassill
Kay Cassill*
Affiliation:
The Twins Foundation, Providence, Rhode Island
*
The Twins Foundation, P. O. Box 9487, Providence, R.I. 02940-9487, USA

Abstract

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Revelations about twins are abundant, but the information often is inaccessible. Therefore, The Twins Foundation, a multifaceted, international, nonprofit agency has been formed. Through development of a Research Library, Museum and Hall of Fame, it will (1) provide archival and research support to the growing number of disciplines involved in twin studies; (2) provide a central repository and clearing house of information about twins for the general public; (3) enlist twin achievers to act as role models for adolescent twins; and (4) collect information about the contributions twins have made to their societies in order to dispel still prevalent negative stereotypes about multiples. (Note: The term “twin” is used generically and implies all multiples).

Keywords

Twin FoundationAdolescenceStereotypesTwin achievers
Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , July 1984 , pp. 523 - 525
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1984

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