Tarzan Of The Apes: Feral Isolated And Institutionalized Children

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

For example, Genie Wiley, whom is the child who was locked up and tied to a toileting chair in a room on her own for 13 years as her father believed she had a disability. This act of isolation has had a detrimental effect on her development. When Genie was found she was unable to walk properly, was unable to eat solid food and could not talk, this was believed to be because indications showed

When meeting with the social worker, it was assumed that the Genie was 7 years old, however upon discovering the shocking truth that Genie was 13 the social worker informed her supervisor and local police were called. The girl was then placed in the hospital and awarded to the state. The results on Genie's treatment of neglect and abuse over the years caused major damage to her growth and development. Genie was psychically small and because she was restrained to a potty chair and confined to a crib where her legs and arms did not have adequate room to stretch. Another factor in her physical growth delay was years of malnourishment.

Genie is a wild child who found in LA on 1970, she is a very extreme case of neglected the caretaking from adult. Her father believed she is retarder She spent her first thirteen years on tiding at the potty chair and still wearing diaper, she had never see, listen, being taught of anything in her life. For the past many years she had been isolation and lack of adult care make her the way she is right now.

Genie’s case is heartbreaking. Not only did she suffer unimaginable traumas during the first 12 years of her life, but her case resulted in a tug-of-war from researchers who wanted to help her, yet wanted to further their own agenda. It was particularly sad to hear that she had returned to live with her mother at age 18, and then entered the foster care system when her mother realized that she was ill equipped to care for her daughter. She was subjected to further trauma and abuse,

She is categorized as being a confined child. Her upbringing after her discovery was very scientific and cold. Genie was seen as more of an experiment and experienced very little love from her parental figures. After the money ran out, she was bounced around from caregiver to caregiver for the remainder of her life. Genie had originally come from an abusive home where some of her older siblings had died when they were younger.

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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

Genie was a primitive and beastly girl who wasn’t humanly ready nor fit for regular movement, speech and could not interact with others properly. Genie being physically, emotionally and mentally severely undeveloped is the cause for her immature natures. She had no one to look at nor talk to for almost a decade. She was basically looking at walls for the majority of her life because she had been socially isolated. She exposed actions and movements of an infant.

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The video “Genie: Secret of the Wild Child-My Shocking Story,” demonstrated that isolation from the world affects the ability to function in society. The social environment that surrounds us from the time we are born is critical in developing skills that are vital to survive and be independent in the world. As a child, we are surrounded with family, friends, and television that we learn language, skills to interact with others, and developmental skills. Genie lived in isolation which caused her to be developmental y delayed in developing language skills and social skills to function in an environment. Genie was kept in isolation for ten years by her father.

In this film, we view the case of a child named “Genie” who was isolated as a child. Genie was discovered on November 4th, 1970 at 13 years of age where she was discovered to have been strapped to a potty chair and isolated from the world for most of her life. Throughout the film we see the many researchers found an interest in Genie and began to investigate if she would be able to acquire language although she had passed the critical period of language development. Although, these researchers believed that they were helping Genie and she displayed significant progress it was clear that Genie was not able to speak proper English. She was able to enhance her vocabulary

In the video we initially meet a ten-year old girl named Genie in Los Angeles in 1970. Genie, as Susan Curtiss explains it, is an individual put into the world with no prior engagement beforehand. This means that Genie has had little to no contact with other people. This also means that Genie has never learned a specific language. Genie is a special individual put under a predicament that has altered her ability to learn and be social. As the video progresses, it says that she was tied to a potty chair for the first ten years of her life. Genie 's parents had deprived her of physical contact by isolating her. Authorities had found her in such a state that they referred to her as being like a baby bunny first learning how to walk. Genie 's parents were later prosecuted for child abuse. The reasons given for her treatment by her father were that she was already retarded and he didn 't want to let her out of the house for people to see. Almost as if having a mentally retarded child would be a shameful situation for her father to undergo.

These children are not raised by wolves, they are not raised at all. They do not have the human connection that a child should get from a young age. An example of a feral child would be one who was neglected by its parents. They do not have any social interactions with parents or peers. These children do not learn the basics of language or behavior.

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