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feral child
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feral childnoun
A child not raised in the company of humans; a child raised by wild animals. Romulus and Remus in Roman mythology were feral children. Authenticated examples of children raised by beasts are rare or nonexistent, though there are stories of children being raised from infancy in isolation from adults, or in the presence of deaf and dumb adults, resulting in an inability to speak human language.
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feral childnoun
A child who is raised without human contact as a result of being abandoned, allegedly often raised by wild animals.
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Feral child
A feral child is a human child who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, and has no experience of human care, loving or social behavior, and crucially, of human language. Some feral children have been confined by people; in some cases this child abandonment was due to the parents’ rejection of a child’s severe intellectual or physical impairment. Feral children may have experienced severe child abuse or trauma before being abandoned or running away. Feral children are sometimes the subjects of folklore and legends, typically portrayed as having been brought up by animals.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of feral child in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of feral child in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
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