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A feral child (also called wild child) is a young individual who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, with little or no experience of human care, social behavior, or language. Such children lack the basics of primary and secondary socialization . [ 1 ]
Several books about feral or abused children contain chapters on Genie, and many on linguistics and psychology also discuss her case at length. [ 294 ] [ 299 ] [ 300 ] In 1994, Nova released a documentary about her based on Rymer's book, titled Secret of the Wild Child , which won multiple Emmy Awards.
Victor of Aveyron (French: Victor de l'Aveyron; c. 1788 – 1828) was a French feral child who was found around the age of 9. Not only is he considered one of the most famous feral children, but his case is also the most documented case of a feral child. [1]
Mockingbird Don't Sing is a 2001 American independent film based on the true story of Genie, a modern-day feral child. [1] The film is told from the point of view of Susan Curtiss (whose fictitious name is Sandra Tannen), a professor of linguistics at University of California, Los Angeles. Although the film is based on a true story, all of the ...
According to doctors and medical records, she was a normal child at birth, [3] but was later neglected by her alcoholic father at age three, and she lived surrounded by dogs. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] When Malaya was found by authorities, she was seven and a half years old, but she could not talk, lacked many basic skills, and physically behaved like a dog.
The popular Netflix documentary shows how oldest child, Lesly Mucutuy, 13, bravely cared for her siblings — Soleiny, 9, Tien Noriel, 4, and Cristin, who turned 1 during their ordeal — as she ...
Ochota presented the three-part series, Raised Wild for Animal Planet (broadcast as Feral Children in the UK), investigating cases of 'feral' children, defined as children either raised by or with animals, or children who had survived for a significant period in the wild. [9] There were three episodes in Season 1, in Uganda, Ukraine and Fiji. [10]
A teenager who killed four students at his Michigan high school in 2021 was like a “feral child,” deeply neglected by his parents during crucial years and mentally ill, a psychologist ...