You may have heard of feral children before but never knew what they were. If you have watched the movie Tarzan, then you have witnessed a feral child. There are people who say it is impossible for children to survive on their own, live in the wilderness, or be raised by animals. Other people say the idea of feral children is a conspiracy. There are many people who have never heard of feral children. Some people who have heard of feral children choose not to believe because they are one of those “I have to see it to believe it” people. Feral children do survive and they exist.
The definition of feral means to be in a wild state, hence the term,” feral children”, meaning, wild children. Most of the time feral children are children who have been abandoned in the woods by their parents at birth and are usually …show more content…
As for the children living in the wild, they plant their roots there, their families are animals, it is their life source. If you take a plant from the ground, it is going to die because you are disconnecting it from all it knows, you are taking it away from its life source. So if you remove a child from the wilderness, from the only family it has ever known to bring it back to civilization where it should have been in the first place, there is a chance it will not survive. You would be ripping it away from its life source. Two sisters Amala and Kamala are a prime example of this. Amala and Kamala were known as the “wolf children”. They were discovered in the jungles of India at the ages of 8 and 3 in the 1920s. They had been living with a she-wolf and her pack. A man found the girls and took them back to an orphanage which is where he tried to show them human ways of life they had been missing out on. Over the years, the girls made some progress but they both ended up dying. (The Week Staff). The question since has been ‘Was taking the girls from the wild the right thing to