Feral Children Research Paper

Decent Essays
Lauren Cartwright
Mrs. Goodwin
Senior English
13 November 2017

Feral Children There have been many cases of “wild children,” this term refers a human child who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age where they have little or no experience of human care, behavior, or, most importantly, of human language. Children that were raised by animals gain the traits of the animals. Consequently, early childhood influences are usually permanent.
There are some certain characteristics of a feral being. Someone who is “wild” typically walks around on all fours. For some cases, they grow amazingly keen senses that some people may think only animals could have, but for others their ordinary senses are stunted. Though their senses may be keen, they are very idiotic. To put it simply, they are non-human. “Feral man seem to demonstrate clearly the extent to which psychological and medical terms are culturally defined.” (Timothy Sprehe, 163)
Feral children are typically found with no clothes and react violently when you try to dress them, as an animal would. They also tend to only show two emotions, anger and impatience. Well, that is when they show emotion at all. They never laugh or smile or show any type of joy/humor. In general, affective responses are slight.
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Feral children have it twice as hard, they must unlearn animal habits, and almost all of them have passed their “optimal period for development of a normal human response.” Children that are adopted by animals lose their human behavior, regardless at the age which they are adopted. Data shows that children adopted by animals at 3, 4, 5, and 6 years old conform to the standards of their parents. This shows the permanence of any habits that are established before 3 years old. One other interpretation of the data is that transformation from human to animal is easier than transformation from animal to

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