Why is it difficult for a feral child to go back to normal
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This isn't that difficult to figure out.
This child has gotten used to living "in the wild", or otherwise without a home or parents, or any social rules of any kind. Or rules, for that matter. As a child, they'd have to learn everything anew, even if they already learned it when they were younger. They forgot all about rules and society and everything they learned, solely to focus on survival.
There are several stages to an animal's development. Kittens and puppies are left with mothers for six to eight weeks to be sure they know they are kittens and puppies, and then they are rehomed so they can learn how to act like pets instead of wild animals.
There are a lot of details to this process. For instance, humans hang brightly colored things over a baby's crib so there is something to look at as baby's eyes develop. In Navaho tribes the mothers used to carry a baby strapped to the mother's back for the first year or so and that made a huge difference in the way kids saw the world. (It also made a flat spot on the back of the head.)
It appears you're talking about a child 'raised wild'.
A child learns by what they see and hear - thus, they don't know that their behavior is acceptable or not until they make a mistake and someone brings it to their attention.
Say a child was dumped in a forest, by his or her parents because they just couldn't handle raising a child anymore. The child depends on what's around them and the animals they become close to. Soon, not knowing they are not the animal, they behave like the same animals they live with.....they then think this is normal behavior.
It take a lot of time and patience to 'change' the child to behave more like a 'human'.
Thanks! For my finals tomorrow,