After reading chapter 4 in the textbook, I could not stop thinking about Genie, the girl who had been kept in isolation in her own home from age 18 months until about13 years of age. Probably because I am a parent myself, I can not fathom how someone could be so cruel to a child, especially such a young one who is so innocent to the world and will know nothing else except for the horrific abuse enacted against her. This poor girl, who spent her days and nights completely alone, except for when a family member would throw some food in to her room or "bark" at her for making noise, lived an existence of fear, silence, loneliness. Its hard to say if she felt any despair, however, because she never knew life could be anything other than entrapment within four walls with nothing to occupy her mind.
How simply inhuman and unthinkable her situation was. I decided to look up more information; I found some info on wikipedia.com and also on this site http://www.feralchildren.com/en/showchild.php?ch=genie which also has other examples of socially deprived and isolated children. I just thought I would share my thoughts on the subject, as it is still disturbing to me.
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