(a minor point. Feral children might not “exist”, in a way. My zoological friends say it is quite possible that someone takes out an unfit child, or even just a mouth too many, to the forest and leaves it there. It is possible that a predator finds it and doesn’t eat at once—predators can play with food. And it is possible that the child is found again before it dies. (Perhaps even without the predator part.) But it’s no more than that.)
(a minor point. Feral children might not “exist”, in a way. My zoological friends say it is quite possible that someone takes out an unfit child, or even just a mouth too many, to the forest and leaves it there. It is possible that a predator finds it and doesn’t eat at once—predators can play with food. And it is possible that the child is found again before it dies. (Perhaps even without the predator part.) But it’s no more than that.)