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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 ]
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]
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Saturnin Farandoul a child raised by orangutans who becomes king of the apes. H. Rider Haggard's 1889 novelette, "Allan's Wife," features the antagonist Hendrika, a white Boer child who was stolen and raised by baboons. She is later rescued and "civilized" by an English family, but she retains baboon-like behavior and the ability to communicate ...
Fictional feral children, young individuals who have lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, with little or no experience of human care, social behavior, or language. The term is used to refer to children who have suffered severe abuse or trauma before being abandoned or running away.
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.
“Kids of older parents often grow up fast,” Dr. Quimby says. “They’re usually engaging with parents who've gathered decades of wisdom, which helps them think and act beyond their years.” 2.
Genie was the last, and also second surviving, of four children born to parents living in Arcadia, California.Her father worked in a factory as a flight mechanic during World War II and continued in aviation afterward, and her mother, who was around 20 years younger and from an Oklahoma farming family, had come to Southern California as a teenager with family friends who were fleeing the Dust ...