Feral Children Analysis

Children who have been abandoned by their parents and are brought up by animals or, in some rare cases, are left to survive alone in the wild are called feral children. Like isolated children, they have no human contact whatsoever, but isolated children are barely kept alive and some may be raised with minimal human contact. All feral and isolated children do not have the same experiences as each other. That difference may be the reason for their varying rate of recovery. Isolated children are like infants; they don’t know how to do anything. Whereas feral children may learn how to do things from animals such as getting/eating food and walking/crawling. It is easier to teach and influence isolated children in comparison to feral children who already have accustomed to doing things a certain way.
In the two cases of isolated children, namely Anna and Isabelle, they exhibited a similar behaviour; they were like infants.
Once they were rehabilitated, they developed most of the abilities that other kids their age had. They were able to walk, dress themselves, speak, and identify colors and words. Although it was estimated it would take 6 years for Isabelle to get to an acceptable level of recovery, she showed vast improvements in only 2 years. On the other hand, feral children Victor and Pascal, did not achieve a successful rehabilitative state. Although Victor made a decent recovery, he was never able to speak. Additionally, Pascal’s rehabilitation was not very effective as he continued to act like a wild animal despite being in human company for 5 years. Therefore, this demonstrates the statement that various experiences that isolated and feral children have can result in different degrees of
recovery.