Thursday, 10 May 2012

Feral Children

Okay this is quite interesting, a feral child is one who has been isolated froms society from a young age, sometimes by their own parents understandably they don't show sign of human activity meaning they may be scared of humans, they may not understand certain things. In the past behaviour of the children has been influenced by animals they have survived with, real cases of this case have resulted in children being mentally and physically impared along with a lack of human skills to survive because of the long term isolation.

There is little scientific knowledge about feral children. One of the best-known examples, the "detailed diaries" of Reverend Singh who claimed to have discovered Amala and Kamala (two girls who had been "brought up from birth by wolves") in a forest in India, has been proven a fraud to obtain funds for his orphanage. Bruno Bettleheim states that Amala and Kamala were born mentally and physically disabled.

 Children laying ontop of eachother like a pair of wolves. (Amala and Kamala)

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