Mowgli Syndrome
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Mowgli Syndrome is a term that is often given to children that are found with severe cognitive and/or physical deficiencies that are not the result of any biological cause, but rather are due to severe neglect. These children originally comprised of two recognized categories
- Victims of psychogenic dwarfism due to severe abuse and neglect by their parents or guardians, or
- Feral children, who are children that grew up outside of the influence of civilization, and are sometimes reportedly raised by wild animals.
Of late, this term has been used to denote parentless children of HIV positive parents [1].
The name originates from the character Mowgli, created by Rudyard Kipling in his The Jungle Book. Please note, however, that "Mowgli Syndrome" is not an official diagnosis and that it is merely a rarely used descriptive term for children with extraordinarily deficient upbringings that cause them to have trouble adjusting to the normal culture that they would have otherwise been raised in.
[edit] References
- ^ Other Peoples' Myths: The Cave of Echoes By Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty
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