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A feral child (feral, ie. "wild" or undomesticated) is a human child who, from a very young age, has lived in isolation from human contact and has remained unaware of human social behavior, and unexposed to language. A feral child is an extremely rare phenomenon, and there are only just over a hundred known cases FeralChildren.com contains a list of 117 cases here..
Origins and effects
Feral children may be separated from society by being lost or abandoned in the wild. The category also includes children who have been purposely kept apart from human society, e.g. kept in a room in solitary confinement. Sometimes abandonment is because of parents rejecting a child's severe intellectual impairment or physical disability, and some feral children experience severe child abuse or trauma before being abandoned.
Some myths and legends, and later many fictional stories depict feral children as having been reared by wild animals such as wolves or bears. Famous examples include Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan and Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli.
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Manatee County opens feral hog hunts to children. http://r2u.at/gc7C
yoloneco178 (Manatee County) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:02:58 -0000
Manatee County opens feral hog hunts to children. http://r2u.at/gc7C
RT @SEAshows: On Sale Now: The Feral Children CD Release Party! at Neumos (@Neumos) on 1/27/10. Tix: http://j.mp/7scUlZ
pinksage (Drea Avellan) Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:56:52 -0000
RT @SEAshows: On Sale Now: The Feral Children CD Release Party! at Neumos (@Neumos) on 1/27/10. Tix: http://j.mp/7scUlZ
@izzyballiette ok seeing your tweet i had to google what feral children were....and that is pretty crazy, and very very interesting
nickds87 (Nick Selesky) Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:03:01 -0000
@izzyballiette ok seeing your tweet i had to google what feral children were....and that is pretty crazy, and very very interesting
Learning about feral children in pysch. It makes me want to throw up.
izzyballiette (Izzy Woods) Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:42:37 -0000
Learning about feral children in pysch. It makes me want to throw up.
#uksnow TW7 1/10 - still enough to turn class of 18-year-olds into feral, uncontrollable, shrieking children. Pass me the gin please.
morphosaurus (Julia) Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:03:16 -0000
#uksnow TW7 1/10 - still enough to turn class of 18-year-olds into feral, uncontrollable, shrieking children. Pass me the gin please.
RT @random_walker: hacker news has concluded that SF = "adult children," "feral humans" & inept govt. bozos http://is.gd/5qHK5 spot on :-)
HDow (Harmon) Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:34:07 -0000
RT @random_walker: hacker news has concluded that SF = "adult children," "feral humans" & inept govt. bozos http://is.gd/5qHK5 spot on :-)
Chilean 'Dog Boy' - Article about 10-year-old Chilean boy who lived with stray dogs for two years.
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Feral Children - Wikipedia - The online encyclopedia's entry on feral children, containing a brief description of feral children, a list of several well-known cases, and links to articles about some of the children.
Feral Children in Legend, Literature -- and Life - A trivia quiz that tests knowledge of mythology, literature, history, current events and zoology.
Meta Description: [ Feral Children in Legend, Literature -- and Life, Stories of young children raised or nursed by non-human animals abound in legend and literature -- and in real life as well. ...I have tried herein to make a quiz that tests knowledge of mythology, literature, history, current events and zoology. ]
FeralChildren.com - Stories of feral children, photos, book extracts and reviews, academic articles and essays, and lists of books and other resources.
Meta Description: [ Stories of isolated, confined, wild and wolf children, photos, book extracts and reviews, academic articles and essays, and lists of books and other resources. ]
From Monkey Boy to Choir Boy - An article about John Ssebunya, an orphan boy apparently reared by apes in the African jungle who was brought to Britain in 1999.
Meta Description: [ An orphan boy reared by apes in the African jungle arrives in Britain to sing with a children's choir. ]
Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence: Feral Children - A brief article citing several famous cases and the controversies about human nature to which they are relevant.
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Jacksonville.com: Metro: Teen found caged; parents held - The adoptive parents of a 17-year-old boy who was found locked in a crib suffering from psychosocial dwarfism are charged with felony child neglect.
Neuroscience for Kids: Feral Children - A lesson about feral children written for children, including a list of films about real and fictional cases.
Romania's Wild Boy - A news story describing the case of Traian Caldarar, a Romanian boy who lived in the wild for three years.
Meta Description: [ FarShores News headline: Romania’s Wild Boy Reclaimed By His Mother ]
Russian Dog Boy - Article about Ivan Mishukov, a 6-year-old Russian boy who lived with stray dogs.
Meta Description: [ There are two million homeless children in Russia. ]
Savage Girls and Wild Boys: A History of Feral Children - An introduction to the subject, taken and edited from the book of the same title by Michael Newton.
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Siberian boy, 7, raised by dogs after parents abandoned him - A report of a Russian boy apparently raised by the family dog after being abandoned by his parents.
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Studies of Feral Children - Douglas Candland, author of Feral Children and Clever Animals, presents discussions of four famous cases and draws conclusions about language acquisition.
Taming the Monkey Boy - An article about John Ssebunya that appeared in the Scotsman. The author interviews those directly involved in John's discovery and rehabilitation.
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Thai Boy Raised by Dog Dies in Welfare Centre. - A two-year-old Thai boy who was partially raised by a dog was found dead at a welfare centre where he had been taken for protection.
Wild Things: Fortean Times Article - A general article featuring a large number of cases of feral children, with bibliography.
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