The Wild Child

The word feral is defined as something wild. When we think about the word wild, we tend to think of something that is untamed, or not cultivated. A feral child, on the other hand, is a label for those human children who grew up in isolation, and had no human contact from a very young age. These children are seen being raised up by animals because they were left abandoned and as a result, they have little or no experience of human care, behavior, or of human language. Many assume that writers and other people with vivid imaginations make up fictional stories about children raised by animals, unfortunately; indeed it is a fact in history that these children exist. Over the past few decades, there have been cases or stories about feral children, which have shocked the world.…

How Nurture can affects our Personality: The Story of a Feral Child In the documentary video "The Secret of the Wild Child: Story of Genie”, the audience is introduced to Genie’s story, a girl who was held in captivity and isolated by her own father since the moment she was a baby until she was 13 years old. She became primitive, and showed many non-human features. The purpose of this assignment is to debate whether Genie’s behavior was the responsibility of nature or nurture, meaning that…

Cultural and Socioeconomic Factors and Development The purpose of this essay is to analyze the case study of a “wild child”. By doing so, the researcher will identify the socioeconomic factors that may affect the physical and motor development of children from birth to eight years of age. The researcher will explain how a child’s development correlates to the quality of their education (e.g., language and cognitive development). The researcher will also…

The name ‘Genie’ was the name as well as the case title given to the scientific study of a young girl who had lived then majority of her life in complete isolation. Genie was described by researchers as “fragile and beautiful” (Garmon), unable to speak and yet endlessly curious about the world around her once freed. Researchers upon her case set out explore whether or not the effects of extreme isolation maybe reversed as well as if a human could be taught a first language after having aged out…

This was something that really surprised me because a lot of students do not like math, and that can hinder how a teacher feels about the subject. However Sandra enjoys making math fun, and takes delight when student have that “Ah ha” moment when they understand a concept. This all reminds me of the movie we watched in class called “The Wild Child” directed by François Truffaut. In the movie a doctor tries his best to civilize a child raised by wolves. He tries many concepts, some work and some…

I have been playing soccer for an organization called AYSO, since the age of five. This organization is overseen at Liberty Park, which previously was a burn dump before the conversion to a park. As a kid I was very care free and never thought about the consequences that may follow an ignorant decision. Over the years I adopted the nickname “wild child” by my parents because I wore shoes the least I could, but my bad habit quickly changed in the matter of one day. It was a hot afternoon at…

Often the pursuit of knowledge leaves victims, and in the case of Wild Children, there is always a victim. Genie is only one of about fifty cases of children that due to isolation, are unable to develop speech. Her story is one of tragedy and abuse, from a young age she was abused by her father and neglected by her mother. She was not raised and led to develop in a stable or nurturing environment. Genie was born the fourth child to Irene and Clark, and one of two to survive their abuse. After a…

The story of a wild child is a touching documentary about a girl that has been mentally and physically abused by her biological father, it is about the beginning life of Genie Wiley. The sad story is about a girl that has been locked in dark room since she was a child, for over a decade Genie spent her life there sitting on a potty chair for most of her time in that house, this is something inhumane to do to a living being, it took social workers a while to find that poor girl, she was thirteen…

Full ledged language is achieved by communicating and gaining experience with other humans. A study was done comparing parents of different social classes talking to their children and found that the wealthier the families were, the more they communicated with their kids. The psychologists, Betty Hart and Todd Risley Hart concluded: “With few exceptions, the more parents talked to their children, the faster the children’s vocabularies were growing and the higher the children’s I.Q. test scores…

November 4, 1970 the world came to know a rigorously victimized, uncivilized, emaciated and completely isolated girl who would come to be known as “Genie” the wild child (). Genie’s childhood, if that is what we can call it, transpires painfully fiendish as well as inconceivable by parental figures, would become the human embodiment of sociological research. The observation of this young girl intentionally was meant as a propriety deed, nonetheless would become a mistake that society would not…