Child Soldiers Research Paper

Joseph Wahhab
Mrs. Tzavelas
ENG4U
Nov 25, 2015

Recruitment of Child Soldier in Sierra Leone and

The use of children as soldiers in armed conflict is among the most immorally abhorrent practices in the world. Child soldiers exist in almost every part of this world. They are just like every one else they should be treated as children and taken care of not forced into drugs and administration. Various companies have been started in the world to try and help children that are forced into becoming soldiers, to try and save them from what they are going to experience. While children are growing up it is very essential for them to be able to develop their full potential, children should keep their confidence to build positive relation
One of the primarily factors in the use of child soldiers as soldiers is extreme poverty in developing there nations. Parents may also be desperate for food and medical care; therefore they sell their children to the armed militants. Children might also give them self up because of desperate need for food and for the delusion of protection. They might also just be recruited by force. Children turning soldiers can be traced back to a very long time, there hasn’t been much done in the world to help stop it from continuing. The world is also not doing anything to promote the harm it causes and affects children. It could be challenging to help children in need or who are at risk turning might become child soldiers. As soldiers, children often witness or commit the horrifying atrocities including rape, beheadings, amputations, and burning people alive. Those who are fortunate enough to survive their military experience are often left with severe mental health problems. Children shouldn’t have to live there child hood the way they are forced to, rather than having there parents there to tell them what they should do and take care of
Johnson talks about how children would get raped during war and how they wouldn’t have a chance of backing away from it, which supports my thesis because that is a form of abuse. Every day as a result of conflict millions of civilians are killed or hurts, so many of them are children. Children and women are often targets of sexual violence during armed conflicts. Sexual abuse is a very powerful weapon in war predetermined strategies of war. Men and boys as well as women and girls are all victims of such tragedy. Posttraumatic stress disorder can cause a lot of children to have their life’s change to the worse it could cause depression. Children are the most vulnerable to the ugliness of war. Children rape some children and women during war. When children get recruited to become soldiers they have no choice but to follow the rules that started with breaking the laws, those rules turn into the new law with no one able to stop them because they keep growing, therefore when a child soldier is forced to rape an innocent soul they are both affected. Other forms of abuse during war. Children get physically abused and mental hurt for the rest of their lives. The soldier would beat someone that is much older and stronger than him with the child not being able to defend his