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Who’s they? Surely if politicians claimed they found them, I’d be in the news?
From reading this article, it sounded like they found the general area where they were, but it took a while to actually find them because they kept moving
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You shouldn't be, 13 year olds have complex reasoning and the physical capability. 14 year olds used to be expected to fight wars.
I'd be surprised if a 30yo could keep a 1, 4, and 9 alive in the jungle for 40 days.
Finally since good news :) Surprised that a 13 years old was able to take care of 3 small children in a jungle full of snakes and jaguars for 40 days. How was he able to keep the toddler alive? What do you feed someone that young in a jungle??
In English common law, traditionally 7 is the age of reason, 14 the age of an adult, and 21 the age of majority. We'd have 14 year olds off to sea, etc.
I suspect (but haven't checked) this comes from some biblical rules.
Remember that people can generally breed by 14 (even now, some girls go through pubity around 10 or 11), though a lot of western cultures now outlaw it.
One thing I feel is missing from the article is how brutal the conditions (for the kids and the rescue team) must have been. Extreme heat and humidity are no joke.
A child was abandoned in the colombian jungle at the age of 4 and lived in the jungle, raised by monkeys, for 5 years. https://allthatsinteresting.com/marina-chapman
PSA I’m no expert but as a kid I was taught to stay where you were if you got lost. And this seems to demonstrate that.
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I'd be surprised if a 30yo could keep a 1, 4, and 9 alive in the jungle for 40 days.
Big difference between a 30 year old westerner who’s never been more than 500m from a paved highway and is afraid of spiders and a 13-year-old indigenous child who grew up in the jungle
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What do you mean by normal? Having an adolescence centered around indulgence and freedom from responsibility was not the norm anywhere, historically, and is not the norm in many places today. Waiting until adulthood to learn practical skills (whatever those might be) is a little weird, if you think about it.
“Normal” as in, if you take a random 13 year old off the street and throw them into the Amazon with their younger siblings, they wouldn’t be able to keep a 1 year old alive for a month. I’m not talking about history. I’m talking about the current state of the world.
She was able to do it in the Amazon because that's an environment she knows. Many, many others may not be able to do it in the Amazon specifically, but would be able to do so in a wilderness that they know.