Child Soldiers
Dusty Boyd
Research Paper
Child Soldiers Imagine having someone come into your home and take your eight year old son or daughter away, teach them how to use weapons, have them kill or maim their own family members, expect them to fight in a war that they know nothing about or even turn them into a sex slave. Can you imagine your child as a soldier in a war? Knowing your child is out somewhere getting shot at or even being forced into sex can be very difficult to deal with as a parent. Crimes against humanity, like this one, should not be allowed and it seems as though in certain countries and areas little is being done to stop it or to help these children.
Children around the world are forced to be soldiers, War Child UK.com states that “There are estimated to be 250,000 child soldiers in the world and 40% of those children are girls.” Countries in Africa such as, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Sudan and Uganda all have child soldiers. The children in these countries are not getting the basic needs of life such as food, shelter and medical attention. They are missing out on the love, nurture and education that a child in a non-combative area would usually get. Some people think that just because children are easier to persuade, they can recruit them as a soldier and put them in the front line of combat to make their enemies second guess themselves. They would second guess themselves because it could be their own child they are shooting at or the child reminds them of their own. It should be illegal to use children as soldiers because of the adverse effects it has on children.
War can have many different effects on a child, such as being uprooted from their families, orphaned, deprived of education and childhood recreations, and exposed to violence and sexual assaults. Many of these children have psychological problems when they grow up, for instance, they may
Research Paper
Child Soldiers Imagine having someone come into your home and take your eight year old son or daughter away, teach them how to use weapons, have them kill or maim their own family members, expect them to fight in a war that they know nothing about or even turn them into a sex slave. Can you imagine your child as a soldier in a war? Knowing your child is out somewhere getting shot at or even being forced into sex can be very difficult to deal with as a parent. Crimes against humanity, like this one, should not be allowed and it seems as though in certain countries and areas little is being done to stop it or to help these children.
Children around the world are forced to be soldiers, War Child UK.com states that “There are estimated to be 250,000 child soldiers in the world and 40% of those children are girls.” Countries in Africa such as, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Sudan and Uganda all have child soldiers. The children in these countries are not getting the basic needs of life such as food, shelter and medical attention. They are missing out on the love, nurture and education that a child in a non-combative area would usually get. Some people think that just because children are easier to persuade, they can recruit them as a soldier and put them in the front line of combat to make their enemies second guess themselves. They would second guess themselves because it could be their own child they are shooting at or the child reminds them of their own. It should be illegal to use children as soldiers because of the adverse effects it has on children.
War can have many different effects on a child, such as being uprooted from their families, orphaned, deprived of education and childhood recreations, and exposed to violence and sexual assaults. Many of these children have psychological problems when they grow up, for instance, they may