W9-1 extra) Feral children and Mowgli phenomenon

 Feral children and Mowgli phenomenon

 Mowgli phenomenon is a kind of mental illness, also called the Mowgli syndrome. The origin of the name comes from Mogley, the main character of the novel Jungle Book, which is well known to us and refers to the phenomenon in which a child grows up without being treated by humans and lives like an animal.

 It is normal for ordinary children to learn how to live as human beings while being loved by their parents, or otherwise they may have mental disorders that act like wild animals or follow animals as their own parents. In fact, parents of children who suffer from this phenomenon are punished for child abuse. Most parents are caused by neglect, but stories are glorified by the setting that they are raised by animals after they fall from their parents due to an accident or their parents pass away.

 Some of the real-life examples are of children raised by animals in the wild, who sometimes die of illness or stress during the course of treatment, and even if the treatment is successful, they only say three or four short words even if they don't have the intelligence of a 5-year-old child or older. Also, children who were thought to have been treated like this died early in their 20s.

The Jungle Book

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