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who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age and has no or little
experience of huaman care , loving or social behaviour and cruicially of human language.
Feral children lack the basic social skills which are normally learned in the proces of
enculturation. For example they may be unable to use the toilet have trouble learning to
walk upright and display a complete lack of interest in human activityaround them. Oxana
marias began her life living with dogs. rejected by her mother and father she somehow survived
for six years living wild before being taken into care. There are few cases of feral children
being able to fully compensate for the neglect they have suffrered. Oxala is now 22 and her
future is still hangs in the balance. Have scientists learned enough from previous cases
to rehabilitate her. For six years Oxala Marias spent her life living in a kennel with dogs
totally abondoned by her mother and father she was discovered behaving more like an animal
than a human child. For two centuries wild children have been the object of fascinating
study raised without love or social interaction the wild or feral children pose the question,
what is it that makes us human? Oxana was born in November 1983. When the baby gilrl
was born she weighed five pounds eleven ounces and did not have any abnormalities. Jeanie
had spent thirteen years isolated in the nearly empty room devoid of any social contact. After a while due to the insistence
of others to rehabilitate her Jeanie began to expres herself through sign language and
socialise with people. They also took responsibility for Jeanies therapy to help her grapel with
the horror of her childhood. In this primitive role playing excercise Marilyn pretends to
be jeanies mother Marylin tries to elicit memories of Jeanies past Jeanie is the extreme evidence that environments
have influence. Despite all she has been through Jeanies troubles were not over at the first
foster home Jeanie was severely punished for vomiting the experience was so tramatising
that Jeanie ended up back in childre's hospital where the wriglers offered assistance. You
coundt help it so now your'e keeping your mouth closed so you dont vomit. Jeanie was
afraid to open her mouth she regressed to the only way she knew how to be under siege,
completely silent. If you do not expose a human being to *** *** paedophilia necrophillia
racism then they will not know what they are. its like trying to imagine a colour you have
never seen before.