Child Soldiers Research Paper
Luke Jankoski
4/4/16
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Child Soldiers in the U.K. Around the world children are being used as weapons of war. They are either being enticed by propaganda or being forced to go to battle, and fight for something that they don't even understand. Child soldiers are not a recent issue; they have been used for centuries around the world. Child soldiers can be traced back to the eighteenth century France, when times were tough and parents were unable to take care of their children, Or back to the mid nineteen hundreds when a crazy man had a dream of a “perfect human race”. To the present times where they are being used by some surprising countries. In the world today there are twenty countries that still use children below …show more content…
In the more recent world though we don’t have a need to use children in war. Their main concern should be about learning, not whether or not they are going to get a bullet in their head. Child soldiers have been used as weapons of war against their rivals for centuries. In the United Kingdom children can step up to fight in the military as young as sixteen. The United Kingdom's belief is that by training them at such a young age it will make them become better fighter. Citizens from the United Kingdom are fighting for the rights of their children by trying to raise the age that they can enlist to eighteen. It is unacceptable to take a child from their home, and the people that they know so that they can fight in a war that they don't understand. That will lead them to come back deprived of the basic education that they would have had if they stayed in school, or they may not come back home at all. The United Kingdom needs to change their outlook on this issue, it is unacceptable for a world power to use children to fight their wars. For now organizations like childsoldiersinternational.org are doing all that they can to try to change the law, but they need the support of people to prove to the U.K. government that using children is not the way to win
4/4/16
Ruff/Shea
Whistle
Child Soldiers in the U.K. Around the world children are being used as weapons of war. They are either being enticed by propaganda or being forced to go to battle, and fight for something that they don't even understand. Child soldiers are not a recent issue; they have been used for centuries around the world. Child soldiers can be traced back to the eighteenth century France, when times were tough and parents were unable to take care of their children, Or back to the mid nineteen hundreds when a crazy man had a dream of a “perfect human race”. To the present times where they are being used by some surprising countries. In the world today there are twenty countries that still use children below …show more content…
In the more recent world though we don’t have a need to use children in war. Their main concern should be about learning, not whether or not they are going to get a bullet in their head. Child soldiers have been used as weapons of war against their rivals for centuries. In the United Kingdom children can step up to fight in the military as young as sixteen. The United Kingdom's belief is that by training them at such a young age it will make them become better fighter. Citizens from the United Kingdom are fighting for the rights of their children by trying to raise the age that they can enlist to eighteen. It is unacceptable to take a child from their home, and the people that they know so that they can fight in a war that they don't understand. That will lead them to come back deprived of the basic education that they would have had if they stayed in school, or they may not come back home at all. The United Kingdom needs to change their outlook on this issue, it is unacceptable for a world power to use children to fight their wars. For now organizations like childsoldiersinternational.org are doing all that they can to try to change the law, but they need the support of people to prove to the U.K. government that using children is not the way to win