Wild children


Wild children, wolf children - children living in social isolation, raised by animals or having only indirect contact with people (eg, children kept in captivity and not in contact with other people). Literary examples of wolf children are Romulus and Remus or Mowgli. One of the most famous wild children is Victor and Genie. The mysterious Kaspar Hauser is also a mysterious child.

Wild children have problems with the mastery of human speech. There is a hypothesis created by Eric Lenneberg that a human child is developing in his or her time when it is possible to assimilate a language with remarkable ease. This optimal period ends with adolescence, and a man who has lost his or her chance to master speech before about twelve years of age loses it irrevocably.

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