Center for Loss in Multiple Birth, Inc. The Fox Valley Mothers of Twins Club, a support group for mothers of twins and higher order multiples. Eastern Hills Mothers Of Twins Club is a non-profit organization whose pupose is to provide support and outreach programs to parents of multiples as needed. The club is designed to help mothers of multiples meet others in similar circumstances and benefit from their experiences. The International Society for Twin Studies is an international, multi-disciplinary organization, established with the purpose of furthering research and social action in all fields related to twin studies, for the mutual benefit of twins and their families.
Membership is open to all persons interested in the activities of the society.
ITA has been meeting every Labor Day weekend since 1934. We are intrigued by the twin's closeness. Using John Bowlby's Attachment Theory as her conceptual base and illustrated by the words of lone twins themselves, the author takes the reader through the closeness of being a twin, including its negative aspects and their need to be different from each other. Topics include death and bereavement, parental attitudes to the surviving twin, the surviving twin's guilt and bereavement in childhood and in adulthood and the psychological effects in later life for children who lost their twin at birth. They are happy to be contacted by others in the same situation.