Discuss how being raised in extreme isolation affects the socialization of children commonly thought of as "feral."
What will be an ideal response?
Feedback: Feral children are those who have been raised with little or no human contact, and whose brains are permanently altered by that neglect (smaller and with obvious atrophy). Children require social contact to develop the potential established by their genetic composition. A person's concepts of his or her own self and personality and understanding of love, freedom, justice, right and wrong, and reality are all products of social interaction. While the reported cases of feral children raised by animals should be viewed with skepticism, the cases of children living in human settings but isolated from most human contact reveal much about the importance of human interaction in becoming human. For example, Anna, the illegitimate child hidden by her mother in the attic and fed but otherwise ignored could not sit up, walk, laugh, smile, or show anger when she was found. Likewise, Danielle was discovered in Florida at the age of 7; her behavior was generally infantile. Both girls recovered to some extent with therapy.
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