The Secret Of The Wild Child Analysis

The Secret of the Wild Child is a documentary about a feral child referred to as Genie. Social workers found her tied to a potty chair in a bare room alone. They soon found out Genie was actually 13 years old, but she appeared much younger and was cognitively on the same level as a toddler. Psychologists and Doctors were faced with the controversial topic of nature vs nurture. Is Genie condition from her environment or was she born this way? And what is the best way for them to help her?

The psychologists and doctors believed Genie must have been beaten for making sounds and is why she rarely did. The few sounds Genie would make were very similar to those that you would hear from an infant. Since her parents almost rarely talked to her Genie never learned how to talk. Because Genie spent the first 13 years of her life receiving next to none stimulus her brain development was gravely stunted. It is incredibly important for parents to encourage brain during childhood, but Genie spent those years in solitary tied to a
Though they did not beat and tie her to a chair, these people who claimed to be infatuated with Genie ran as soon as the money ran out. For years these researchers poured into her care even to the point of bringing her into their own home. Eventually though Genie had seemed to have met the peak of her abilities and the funding were cut from the research. If they had really cared for Genie as a person they would have helped her find a good home, helped the parents in the home understand how to take care of her, and helped Genie transition. Instead Genie was passed through many foster homes where she was again beaten and abused. Where she regressed back to barely speaking and it had undone all that progress she had