Feral Children : Feral Children And Children In The World

According to the growth and development of the attachment theory, children are part of the regenerative entities in the human society. This is also applicable in the animal world. In a study involving monkeys, it is evident that all living creatures exhibit tenderness to the young. Evidently, it is becomes possible to have elements of concern that are directed at influencing the general growth and development of a child. Children have a tendency

My initial reaction to the case study of “Genie The Story of the Wild Child” was despondency. I find it appalling that any person, especially a child, would be subject to such monstrous treatment. Once discovered, Genie was subjected to rather questionable treatment and research, then ultimately turned back over to a state system, which continues to fail her. While I fully recognize the importance of documenting research in cases like Genie’s, it’s still disappointing to read that she became little more than a sophisticated game of tug’o’war between researchers, all of whom seem to have abandoned her when funding ran

In the short story “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”, by Karen Russell she talks about how the girls develop and how the nuns guided them while using the, Jesuit Handbook on Lycanthropic Culture Shock text to help them teach the girls and guide them throughout the stages. Karen Russell talks about how the girls have developed in the stages. Russell specifically talks about how the narrator Claudette has developed. Which leads into being a accepted into the human culture. After arriving at “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”, Claudette has not fully developed with the handbook. In the first stage Claudette is still very much a wolf girl and not a girl, because she is just starting her lessons at the boarding school.

The TLC documentary Wild Child; the Story of Feral Children is a documentary that tells the few of many stories of children that have turned to a feral lifestyle due to parental negligence. Feral, meaning undomesticated, is the used term to describe these children because of the actions they exhibit. The accounts in this documentary range from a young girl who “was raised with the wolves” per say, but instead with her dog, to a little boy who was abandoned in a Ukrainian loft and provided the town strays with food and shelter in return for protection from them and other strays. In some of the cases detailed in this video, these children were far too old by the time they were discovered and missed an extremely crucial time frame in which

In the excerpt “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell the narrator speaks as a half wolf half human mind set. She discusses the improvements and difficulties of living in captivity after being free and wild their entire lives. There are three (3) main characters, Mirabella (youngest), Claudette who is the middle child of the three (3) sisters, and last but certainly not least, Jeanette. These girls are few of an entire “pack” of half human half wolf. The pack is referred to as a whole throughout the duration of this excerpt. They experience difficulty in the transition of the “wolf-identity” into more of a “human-identity”. This short story exemplifies how the difficulty of change after being exposed to ones “tradition” for so long differs for each “person” wolf or not.

For years there have been an excessive number of children in and out of the foster system. Quite a few children have succeeded; however, other children have not. A few children have looked to drugs, alcohol and violence to cope with what they have gone through and/or what they are currently going through. A number of those children ended up in a juvenile detention center or prison for breaking the law. Foster parents are desperately needed to help these children succeed in life and make it through this terrible time.

Theme: “For a start, the very young are necessarily self-centred. What do they care for the tragic or untidy lives of their neighbours? Their primary business is survival, and their preoccupation is with those who help them to survive. Of course their business is also learning about the world around them-hence the boundless curiosity of young animals…” (Page 122)

Metamorphoses of the Werewolf is a book that charts the evolution, growth and changes of werewolf stories “from Antiquity Throughout the Renaissance.” Each chapter focuses on a tale or set of myths in different time periods, and analyzes them, comparing and contrasting, as well as theorizing the meaning behind them based on textual evidence, mainly from church and court documents. Through this method, Ms. Sconduto points out direct correlations between werewolves and the belief systems of the churches in power.

In modern ages, we witnessed these docile animals and their fate of quick extinction due to human activity in islands of Oceania, so it is reasonable to assume that the same thing happened to others about 40,000 years ago when they first met human beings.

Although some may say that Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are is inappropriate for children, this book should not be banned because the author uses a wild child’s journey to create a metaphor for dealing with anger that every child experiences through consequences and how parents’ love for their children is unconditional. In this book, Max is sent to bed without dinner for being disruptive and causing mischief. As a consequence, his mom sends him to his room without dinner. His anger transforms his room into a jungle as he heads out on a journey to where the wild things are. Upon arrival, Max is greeted by the wild things as they intimidate them with their inhuman features. These characters

The wolf was once a much slandered animal. In the western world, people feared and hated wolves, and this legacy is reflected in stories such as Little Red Riding Hood and The Boy Who Cried Wolf. In these popular children's tales the wolf is made out to be a prowler and a killer of livestock and people. There is some basis for The Boy Who Cried Wolf, for wolves have killed cattle and sheep. But what of Little Red Riding Hood? There are no records of wolves killing humans in Canada or the United States. Yet, when wolves were spotted near rural communities, fear used to grip the populace, but over time this has become less prevalent.

In 1962, a geologist found a boy running with a pack of wolves in Central Asia.

Humans require nurturing and human interaction in order to live a normal life. Once an infant is born, a parent cares and watches for the child. The parents teach the child how to communicate, walk, and know what’s right and wrong. Humans require their humanness through social interaction. Without socializing, a human can be brought up differently. Even though children are biologically human, they don’t have the instincts or natural drive that makes them human. Social interaction is needed such as personality, love, freedom, justice, right and wrong, and reality. Humans are the social creations of society. For example, feral children. There are hundreds of documentations on cases of feral children all throughout history. These feral children had been raised without human interaction or by other animals they have come in contact with. There was a case in 1974 about a young boy whose story was similar to Tarzan. In central Africa, he was discovered at only six years old with a group of gray monkeys. For many years, he still remained a monkey by eating only fruits and vegetables and jumping up and down in excitement. Also another case with a young girl named Anna. Throughout her life she lived in seclusion and loneliness. Her grandfather refused to acknowledged her existence while her mother ignored her and kept her in an attic. Once she was discovered by a social worker they

But what if we were completely untouched by society, isolated from all forms of humanity? Without other people to interact with and learn from, babies would grow to be nothing more than a wild animal. Every human being is born with the potential to develop into an intelligent, social creature, but without human influence a person can never develop into what we consider to be a member of human society. One can clearly see this through the reports of feral children. There has been only a few cases reported and very few studied. In cases from the past feral children are reported as wild children who could not speak or communicate in anyway. These children bit, scratched, growled, and walked on all fours. In addition to this primal behavior, they ate grass, ravenously tared apart small animals and devoured the raw meat. The most shocking quality of the children was their apparent lack of sensitivity to pain or cold. (Henslin 66-7) The most famous case of a feral child was “The wild boy of Aveyron” in 1798. At first this case would have been written off as just another folk tale, but a French scientist, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, conducted immense studies of the

After the loss of the majority of France’s colonies in the Americas, the Restoration government occupied itself with colonizing attempts in Senegal and French Guiana. During this period of colonial expansion in French Guiana, the French government endorsed several attempts to colonize Mana, an area along the fertile, but poorly known Mana River. However, none of their attempts were successful. In 1827, the French government granted Anne-Marie Javouhey and the Sœurs de Saint-Joseph de Cluny, the religious congregation that Javouhey founded with four of her biological sisters, a tract of land for the establishment of an independent commune. Javouhey initially planned to use Mana to create a safe haven for orphans. Although she asked the French government to financially support the establishment, the colony was to remain independent in terms of governance and its economic livelihood. By 1832, before the orphans that she had envisioned could materialize, Javouhey’s attempt had failed. According to Sarah Curtis, of the original fifty-six colonists in 1828, “five had died, eight had left for other parts of Guiana, and twenty-nine had returned to France.” In 1836, Javouhey returned to Mana. This time, she found success working for the moralization and gradual emancipation of slaves. Commenting on Javouhey’s second effort in Mana, Delaplace stated, “il semblait à beaucoup que c 'était plutôt là l 'œuvre d 'un homme que d 'une femme, si capable et courageuse fût-elle.” His remark