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I remember at least two cases but now I can not get the sources/
references to them and I have searched a whole lot
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One of them is a boy who was apparently left to the forest (as it was
common and the morally acceptable practice in those times) as a new-
born baby and was apparently raised by other mammals. The animal boy
grew up and was caught stealing food, hunted down by villagers and
forcibly transferred to a foreign environment/enrolled in a boarding
school (without even knowing language), where he expectedly died. If I
remember well, that happened in France
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Another case was about an uneducated and abusive father married to a
blind mother who, thinking his daughter was retarded and apparently
"trying to protect her from society" constrained her to a room where
she grew up until suspecting neighbors alerted the police. The girl,
who grew up without social interaction beyond her immediate family
(she was even fed prison style), was severely incapacitated. I think
that happened somewhere in California
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Could you help me find the sources about these cases?
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Do you know of any other cases of humans growing up under extremely
deprived social conditions?
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Thanks
lbrtchx
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| Laura M. Young... |
| Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 4:55 pm |
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On 5/29/09 8:14 AM,"lbrtchx at (no spam) gmail.com" <lbrtchx at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
[quote:99f9d8e0f9]~
I remember at least two cases but now I can not get the sources/
references to them and I have searched a whole lot
~
One of them is a boy who was apparently left to the forest (as it was
common and the morally acceptable practice in those times) as a new-
born baby and was apparently raised by other mammals. The animal boy
grew up and was caught stealing food, hunted down by villagers and
forcibly transferred to a foreign environment/enrolled in a boarding
school (without even knowing language), where he expectedly died. If I
remember well, that happened in France
~
Another case was about an uneducated and abusive father married to a
blind mother who, thinking his daughter was retarded and apparently
"trying to protect her from society" constrained her to a room where
she grew up until suspecting neighbors alerted the police. The girl,
who grew up without social interaction beyond her immediate family
(she was even fed prison style), was severely incapacitated. I think
that happened somewhere in California
~
Could you help me find the sources about these cases?
~
Do you know of any other cases of humans growing up under extremely
deprived social conditions?
~
Thanks
lbrtchx
sci.anthropology
[/quote:99f9d8e0f9]
I remember some discussion of this topic in one or more of my classes in
Special Education. Most of the stories of the children raised by wild
animals have been discounted, and it is generally believed that the
children's "feral" behaviors were likely signs of extreme autism.
I also remember some discussions about babies and small children in
understaffed orphanages who received very little human contact, who also had
many social/behavioral problems because they had no one to "model" human
behavior for them. They were basically left in cribs full time, and only
touched when they needed a diaper change or someone propped a bottle for
them. I'm thinking this was in central Europe somewhere.
During an internship I did many years ago at a state hospital I worked with
a girl known as "Doris the Dog Girl" who had been discussed in one of Bruno
Bettleheim's books. Doris had had extremely abusive parents who for some
period of time had her living in their dog kennel with the dogs. It was
unclear whether the animal-like behaviors she exhibited appeared before or
after she was forced to live with the dogs.
Sorry, I can't give you specific references other than to point to
Bettleheim. |
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