feral children?

[rocket]

Have any of you guys heard strange stories about feral children... like kids that were abandoned and raised by animals and eventually take on attributes that exist in the animals that they were raised by?

[45454]

Hi Rocket,
Go to Alta Vista.Put in quotation marks: "feral humans". :eek:
There will be listings for feral children,too. :shock:
You'll get lots to look through.
Several years ago, Art Bell had a show on the radio about feral humans.
Would have liked to get that recording.
Let me know the finds.







Things are yet to be.

[bullet maker]

A couple of weeks ago, either on TLC, or the History channel. They had a special about feral children. It was very interesting, and I would have recorded the program, but my recorder dont work.
   Anyhow the program interviewed organizations, that had received feral children from India, that had been raised by wolf`s, children from pakistan, and other locations from around the world, that had been documented that was being raised from pack of dogs, to wolfs, to coyotes.

    The most horrible was some documented cases from children that was from our own country of the U.S.A. that had been mistreated, and locked in closets, and only feed to keep them alive, and no interaction from and of the parents. There was one little child from I think it was New Jersey, that had been keep in an outside dog pen, and brought in the house, when the weather got cold or bad.

     The documentary went on to say that all of the children, were way behind in their IQ. and could never be brought up to par with other children. The conclusion was that all children up to 6 years old, if not given the special attention from their mother and father, did not develope that special learning, process and forever lost reality with the learning process, that makes us human, and they would revert back to the social skills, they learned from the dog packs, that raised them.

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[peakoftherut]

I heard of one kid that was raised by animals in Africa. If I remember correctly his name was Tarzan.

[bullet maker]

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[Dusty Miller]

Don't laugh, bullet maker, our cities are full of "feral" children.  They are kids that parents don't really want and are just turned loose to do what they want without any paental guidance of any kind.

[NONYA]

I call them Hood Rats :wink:

[bullet maker]

Don't laugh, bullet maker, our cities are full of "feral" children.  They are kids that parents don't really want and are just turned loose to do what they want without any paental guidance of any kind.

    Thats absoluty right Dusty, and it is a shame , thats one reason the crime rate, is so high here in the U.S.A.They were never loved as little ones, and the end result, is what we are seeing today in the newspapers across the U.S.A.

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[Tn Jim]

Dusty is absolutely right. Hence the expression "Law of the jungle".

[45454]

Hi Y'all ,
Yeah, it's also know as "the hunter or the hunted".
Seems with all of this "wonderful"things about this country, there's always the bad things.Some we'll never hear about.
Seen on e article on TV about some lady in Hong Kong/China.
The kids live underground in the sewers. They only have each other. But she is trying to make a difference in their lives.
Sorta,heart tuggin'. :cry:
With some of those "parents",you wonder why did they do this ?
Some leaves their young in a carseat,in the summer,to go shopping.
they don't want to wake their sleeping child.
Come back, and their kid is dead from the heat. Too much "modern
living". They have to live with what they did, for the rest of their lives.
May they rest in peace.

[John]

Back in my teaching days there was a young boy that had been found living off whatever he could find in the trash cans and dumpsters of an area city. Some nice folks thought it was their Christian duty to take him into their home and give him a decent life. If memory serves me correctly, it seems the boy was around three years of age when found, and was probably less than four when adopted.

The folks that adopted him were good people and were the parents of another child, an older girl, and all I can say is that they tried.

If I had to describe the boy, it would be easy to do with only one word, evil. You could not love that kid, he was seriously damaged, and it took only a few minutes to come to the conclusion that the boy was going to wind up dead, or in the penitentiary before his twentieth birthday.

He gave alot of grief to the folks that took him in, crap, he gave alot of grief to anyone that had any dealings with him, and did indeed make it to the pen.

Last I saw him he was probably in his late teens, had already been in alot of trouble with the law, had been kicked out of school, and was hitch hiking. I picked him up. I had had him in class when he was junior high aged, never had too much trouble with him, only had to pull his shirt over his head one time and bodily remove him from the room when he attacked me for taking a rubber band away from him because he was snapping it against the pages of his book, disrupting my class, and wouldn't quit, and wouldn't hand the rubber band to me when asked to, so I figured I could get by with giving him a ride and not worry about a knife between the ribs.

I took him several miles down the road to a major highway so he could get a ride out of town, we had an interesting conversation. He was a young man, he still wasn't right, and the word evil was still valid.

God only knows what kind of crap that boy endured as street feral.

[bullet maker]

Hi John

   Interesting story about the boy. Can you recall the conversation you had with him, as you were driving down  the road? Sometimes people will open up their soul to other people, when like you were, just driving down the road, and there`s nothing to do, and they want to get something off their soul.

    Unfortunatley, there alot of children like that young man in the country, that had no loving parents, they in return become the evil, that was inflicted on them, and sometimes kill other children. The start of serial killers if you will.

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[Dusty Miller]

There are critical stages in the development of almost all animals.  If imortant ingrediants are left out of their lives at those critical stages then they are basically damaged goods that will never become normal.  A child who does not recieve some degree of warmth and love at a very young age will just never have a chance of developing into anything resembling a normal human being.  Its tragic, but it  happens a lot more often than most of us want to think about.  Our society, and just about ALL societies, have no means of dealing with these people except warehousing them in prisons like the wild animals they are.  Its not the kind of topic I enjoy dwelling on for any more than a few minutes at a time.

[ShadowMover]

Rome was supposed to be founded by a couple of feral children. If you can say being fed by a wolf and a woodpecker makes you a feral child :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulus_and_Remus

In the Movie "Mad Max", the story is told by the 'feral child' in the movie, the one with the razor sharp boomerang.

[John]

Hey Bulletmaker, it's been a couple of days since I've checked this board, so I didn't see your question.

I've thought about that ride that I gave the kid, it was several years ago, probably around 10, and I sure can't remember just what was discussed.

I know he told me of the places where he had been, different cities, and states, and told me that he had been in jail a few of times. I remember asking why he had been locked up, and as memory serves me, I don't think he gave me a clear answer, seems I got that strange look that he was capable of and something like, " for doin bad things to people."

As someone has already mentioned here, a personality is formed at a very early age, and this kid was damaged goods. I've known several during my teaching years that were headed for trouble at a very early age, and most found it, a few changed the course that they were on, but many were lost causes no matter what, or who, tried to change their path.

[Stan in SC]

I have 12 grandchildren.They are ALL feral.(or at least I think they act that way.)My wife assures me that such is not so.Perhaps I am judging them on the way I was raised.

Stan

[bullet maker]

Hey guy`s
    I dont know how many of you got to see the excellent documentary of the rogue elephants last night (Jan 22) on the National Geographic. It was a very dark side of elephants, gone wild. They were killing people, rampageing through villages, and trampling people, even killing other species of animals in Africa, such as rhinoceros, which is protected, hippos, anything that came into their way. The one thing in common  the elephants had, is they were all abandoned as juvenile`s. Their parents, had been either poached, and or taken out by (crop control), that is the government had to kill the parents, because the park couldn`t  support the food for the animals.

    So the young grew up to be trouble makers. So much like our own society, of the unwanted kids today. A very dark comparison,.

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[John]

I have an update on the wild child that I told you folks about. He's in the pen out in California....don't know what for, nothing would surprise me though.