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Children raised by wolves. The wave of the future?


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Child rearing has gone through many fads over the last few decades. How about we go back to the basics and let wolves raise our kids again as was done in the past. I always considered Mowgli a role model when I was young. Any thoughts?


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Child rearing has gone through many fads over the last few decades. How about we go back to the basics and let wolves raise our kids again as was done in the past. I always considered Mowgli a role model when I was young. Any thoughts?

The only fly in the ointment, from my experience, is that your average wolf couple tends to prefer eating the baby to raising it.

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I always half joke that my siblings and I were raised by wolves.

No bedtime

Homework? You don't have to do it!

You can stay home from school if you want.

Go to the store and pick up some cigarettes...

and on and on...

No rules, just right!

Life in the wilds was pretty good, though. My fellow woodland creatures and my pack family existed by our strength and cunning, and no one was our master!

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Child rearing has gone through many fads over the last few decades. How about we go back to the basics and let wolves raise our kids again as was done in the past. I always considered Mowgli a role model when I was young. Any thoughts?

This is a very good idea but we have to vet the wolves very carefully to make sure they're not fundamentalists who are going to indoctrinate the kids into their archconservative, science-denying wolf-religion.
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Eh, seems a trible legalistic.,

Now this is the Law of the Jungle --
as old and as true as the sky;
And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper,
but the Wolf that shall break it must die.

As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk
the Law runneth forward and back --
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf,
and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.


Wash daily from nose-tip to tail-tip;
drink deeply, but never too deep;
And remember the night is for hunting,
and forget not the day is for sleep.


The Jackal may follow the Tiger,
but, Cub, when thy whiskers are grown,
Remember the Wolf is a Hunter --
go forth and get food of thine own.


Keep peace withe Lords of the Jungle --
the Tiger, the Panther, and Bear.
And trouble not Hathi the Silent,
and mock not the Boar in his lair.


When Pack meets with Pack in the Jungle,
and neither will go from the trail,
Lie down till the leaders have spoken --
it may be fair words shall prevail.


When ye fight with a Wolf of the Pack,
ye must fight him alone and afar,
Lest others take part in the quarrel,
and the Pack be diminished by war.


The Lair of the Wolf is his refuge,
and where he has made him his home,
Not even the Head Wolf may enter,
not even the Council may come.


The Lair of the Wolf is his refuge,
but where he has digged it too plain,
The Council shall send him a message,
and so he shall change it again.


If ye kill before midnight, be silent,
and wake not the woods with your bay,
Lest ye frighten the deer from the crop,
and your brothers go empty away.


Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates,
and your cubs as they need, and ye can;
But kill not for pleasure of killing,
and seven times never kill Man!


If ye plunder his Kill from a weaker,
devour not all in thy pride;
Pack-Right is the right of the meanest;
so leave him the head and the hide.


The Kill of the Pack is the meat of the Pack.
Ye must eat where it lies;
And no one may carry away of that meat to his lair,
or he dies.


The Kill of the Wolf is the meat of the Wolf.
He may do what he will;
But, till he has given permission,
the Pack may not eat of that Kill.


Cub-Right is the right of the Yearling.
From all of his Pack he may claim
Full-gorge when the killer has eaten;
and none may refuse him the same.


Lair-Right is the right of the Mother.
From all of her year she may claim
One haunch of each kill for her litter,
and none may deny her the same.


Cave-Right is the right of the Father --
to hunt by himself for his own:
He is freed of all calls to the Pack;
he is judged by the Council alone.


Because of his age and his cunning,
because of his gripe and his paw,
In all that the Law leaveth open,
the word of your Head Wolf is Law.


Now these are the Laws of the Jungle,
and many and mighty are they;
But the head and the hoof of the Law
and the haunch and the hump is -- Obey!

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This is a very good idea but we have to vet the wolves very carefully to make sure they're not fundamentalists who are going to indoctrinate the kids into their archconservative, science-denying wolf-religion.

And of course if any legislation is ever drafted it will have to contain some very specific language protecting the rights of females wolves to hide the fact that they are raising human children from their male partners, should the whim take them.

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And of course if any legislation is ever drafted it will have to contain some very specific language protecting the rights of females wolves to hide the fact that they are raising human children from their male partners, should the whim take them.

Trouble with wolf genetics is, certain populations have become so inbred that it's in the best interests of the pack, gov't, and society to know who the parents are to prevent excessive inbreeding. With the hairier human babies this concern doesn't evaporate, particularly when the infant's incisors grow in prematurely.

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