How Isolation Impacts the Growth and Development of Children

While isolated, children face many problems, such as lack of social, lack of sensation, lack of little or no emotions, and rare sports. With less interaction with other people, children will be impossible to learn the general norm of society. This is particularly true for children escaping outdoor habitats. "When a child grows in contact with animals, it shows that it surprisingly resembles the behavior of these animals, and it is proved difficult to eradicate this behavior" (Dennis 1).

Clearly, serious social isolation results in poor social development, but it is difficult to prove "scientifically". At the end of the isolation process, social workers meet isolated children. It is impossible to say whether "wild" behavior is the result of isolation or isolation as a result of genetic problems. Ethics excludes experiments that isolate the impact on children. People can not simply see what happens by isolating the children from human contacts. Therefore, studies on isolation should focus on children who have experienced isolation in the past or study the influence of isolation on animals.

As discussed, socially isolated children are at increased risk of developing health problems in adulthood. Furthermore, research on social isolation suggests that lack of social relationship may adversely affect the development of brain structure. In extreme cases of social isolation, young rat and monkey studies showed that the brain is strongly influenced by lack of social behavior and relationships (Makinodan, Rosen, Ito & Corfas, 2012). In the early stages of development, mice and monkeys were socially isolated for several weeks to further study the relationship between social isolation and physical and cognitive functions. Researchers have found defects in intracellular communication chains called oligodendrocytes. In other words, these cells are damaging the communication between neuron-neurons (cell-cells) in the prefrontal cortex. The function of these cells depends on social interactions to develop prefrontal cortex

Environmental factors directly affect human life cycle. An unsanitary living environment (family environment) may harm the health and development of a child, isolation may hinder the development of society. Cognitive development may be delayed if the child's environment gives little mental or sensory stimulation. Contributions between genetic behavior and environmental factors are discussed in developmental psychology and are known as arguments between nature and cultivation (Burton et al., 2015).