I first learned about Genie's story while doing research for a college thesis. I had personal experience working with children who had been victims of severe neglect, and was writing a paper about their difficulties with language acquisition.This book struck me to the core. Not only is the subject e...
My mother recently brought me over boxes of books I haven't seen in years, one of which was Genie: A Scientific Tragedy. When I was still in college, I had planned on doing my senior psychology thesis on "unattached" children as they were called at the time, children who never properly bonded with a...