Child Soldiers Negative Effects

“In the last ten years an estimated two million children have been killed in armed conflict,” according to Alynna Lyon. The conditions these kids are being put in are just not safe causing the death rate to just go out of the roof. After war, the conditions didn’t just leave them when the war was done, but instead it has stayed with them causing them to be traumatized. Using children as soldiers negatively affects them, and this will continue until people around the world become more informed and laws are created to stop the use of child soldiers. Negative affects of war on children include extreme brutality, exposure of violence leading to some changes to the kid then and forever. “During the “recruitment” children often experienced
We see these kids being chosen or even forced to join the war but is the consciences after the war they are left lost and often very depressed. “In times of war it is likely that a child’s family has been killed or his or her community wiped out…” “…Children face emotional challenges in their transition civilian lifestyles…”(Lyon 53) Its not like the kids can go back to living the same lifestyle as they were living before, instead their whole life is being altered and transformed in many ways. Some kids often go home to broken family or even lost loved ones and family
After children get forced to participate in war they cant just go back to what they were doing before instead they are left lost, scared, and even in worst cases left very depressed. “Children often prove themselves very adaptable with medical attention, counseling, and vocational training, many former soldiers return to normal life…”(Lyon 60) Like said they often go back to there normal lives but a lot of them are left in devastation and never get to live a normal life. Whenever a former solider comes back to where they live after such a devastation like war they often come home to nothing they may have lost a loved one or even lost there family. Even though these kids are done with the war, but the affects of the war is stuck with them. For most kids it can take months to years after leaving the war to even think about trying to go back to living a normal life again. Most families are either broken up or torn apart but it can take quite some time for a town to get everything up and running like it was before the war. And now that’s why we see in the Us Military that you cant use anyone under the age of 18 in the army and it’s a good thing they are now taking precaution, but hope it will spread to other parts of the