Intro- In my investigation I will be attempting to show that twins have a harder time developing their own identity. Unknown to most people there are many different types of twins(1#conjoined twins, polar body twins, Boy/Girl identical twins, mirror image twin) and of course the basic fraternal and identical. 2# Identical twins are defined as one of a pair of twins who develop from a single fertilized ovum and are the same-sex, are usually resemble each other. 3# fraternal twins are one of a pair of twins, not necessarily resembling each other, or the same-sex, that develop from two separately fertilized ova. My topic falls into the category of sociocultural influences. Some of the questions I will be focusing on are: finally the advantage of being a twin how do parent or caregiver contribute to a twins ability to develop their own identity, how do schools contribute to a twins loss of identity?, And finally what is the impact of the loss of a twin? Paragraph 1: Paragraph 2: The parent or caregiver in a child's life helps develop …show more content…
This contributes to an understanding of themselves as two individuals. When it is time to be enrolled in school, one of the hardest decisions parents or caregivers make is whether or not to separate the twins straight away or to wait and let the children get used to the school environment. Both sides have their advantages and disadvantages, such as Tingelof (2007 pg 99), suggests '90 percent of a thousand teachers surveyed believe that classroom separation is better for individual development'.Twins,who are separated have increased time to get use to not always being around their twin, in contrast, it may make it harder for them to develop their own