Child Soldiers Amnesty Essay
FLASH DRAFT #1: Should child soldiers be given amnesty?
Thousands of children around the world are being put to work and being given a gun, not a pencil. A child soldier dies every five minutes being shot or stabbed to death by an adult or even worse, another child. Most children do not have very much of a choice to become a soldier, or not because the choices are don’t become a soldier and probably be killed or do become one and possibly survive. So, I believe child soldiers should be given amnesty. The issue of using children as soldiers in war has a long history, and it is an issue that needs to be stopped. However, only “since 2000, the participation of child soldiers has been reported in most armed conflicts and in almost every region of the world. Although there are no exact figures, and numbers continually change, tens of thousands of children under the age of 18 continue …show more content…
Most kids at war are not coming back to the base at all, let alone to a plate of food. Allowing these kids to come to the U.S. would not only improve their mental health but their physical health as well. Their mental health would be improved upon because they wouldn’t have to have more memories of watching the gun they are holding shoot the bullet that kills another person. Their physical health would improve because if they were given amnesty they could live in an orphanage or foster home and have the opportunity to have a “normal” life with a plate of food and glass of water at least three times a day. These kids would still have their memories which might be frightening for some because they may think that these children could have a deep seeded hate toward Americans or just other people in general. However, I would argue that most of these children are too young to have developed a hatred like that and that with some love and TLC could be turned from soldiers to caring children with better
Thousands of children around the world are being put to work and being given a gun, not a pencil. A child soldier dies every five minutes being shot or stabbed to death by an adult or even worse, another child. Most children do not have very much of a choice to become a soldier, or not because the choices are don’t become a soldier and probably be killed or do become one and possibly survive. So, I believe child soldiers should be given amnesty. The issue of using children as soldiers in war has a long history, and it is an issue that needs to be stopped. However, only “since 2000, the participation of child soldiers has been reported in most armed conflicts and in almost every region of the world. Although there are no exact figures, and numbers continually change, tens of thousands of children under the age of 18 continue …show more content…
Most kids at war are not coming back to the base at all, let alone to a plate of food. Allowing these kids to come to the U.S. would not only improve their mental health but their physical health as well. Their mental health would be improved upon because they wouldn’t have to have more memories of watching the gun they are holding shoot the bullet that kills another person. Their physical health would improve because if they were given amnesty they could live in an orphanage or foster home and have the opportunity to have a “normal” life with a plate of food and glass of water at least three times a day. These kids would still have their memories which might be frightening for some because they may think that these children could have a deep seeded hate toward Americans or just other people in general. However, I would argue that most of these children are too young to have developed a hatred like that and that with some love and TLC could be turned from soldiers to caring children with better