Thoughts on Feral Child

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Cases of feral child have been reported for many years now. Who are these children called feral? What effect of being a feral child has on their physical development, sensory and perception development, intellectual and emotional development as well as gender roles and social development? A child is a person between birth and puberty. He or she is a person who has not attained the age of legal majority. A feral child (feral, – wild or undomesticated) is a human child who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, and has no (or little) experience of human care, loving or social behaviour, and, crucially, of human language. Feral children are confined by humans (often parents), brought up by animals, or live in the wild in isolation. As a psychologist, we will notice that there are quite a huge difference in the development of a normal child and a feral child in many aspects. Physical growth in build and weight occurs over the 15–20 years following birth, as the individual changes from the average weight of 3.5 kg and length of 50 cm at full-term birth to full adult size. As stature and weight increase, the individual's proportions also change, from the relatively large head and small torso and limbs of the neonate, to the adult's relatively small head and long torso and limbs. Poor nutrition and frequent injury and disease can reduce the individual's adult stature, but the best environment cannot cause growth to a greater stature than is determined by heredity. Genetic factors play a major role in determining the growth rate, and particularly the changes in proportion characteristic of early human development. However, genetic factors can produce the maximum growth only if environmental conditions are adequate. This is why it was observed that some of the feral child, example, The Wild Girl of Champagne’s fingers and in particular her thumbs,
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