Child Soldiers: Are They Necessary Or Inhumane?

Have you ever sat and thought to yourself that maybe their are some kids that don’t live in luxurious lives that we do. Hundreds and hundreds of children are forced or recruited into the military at very young age. The main part of the non-state armies are made up of boys(“11 facts”). There are some girls taken away and put into their armies to fight, but most of them are used for other reasons. Over the past two years 20 states have reported to have child soldiers in government or non-government groups (“11 facts”). The use of Child Soldiers is inhumane because they are forced into the military at a young age, taken away from their families, and used on the front lines.
Most of these kids are forced into the military at a young age. No matter how young these children are, for mostly non-state armies, they are are told to kill innocent people (“The Invisible”). These boys and girls are at youngest around 8 years old and at oldest they are around 17 or 18 years old (“11 facts”). Some countries known to use underaged children are: Afghanistan, Colombia, India, Iraq, Israel, Libya, Mali, Pakistan, Thailand, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, and many more countries follow that practice (“11 facts”). Not all kids are forced to fight for these armies, but will chose to because they have no choice. They will
The commanders of these child armies will make them carry out deadly missions such as suicide bombing, act as spies, hold checkpoints, or fight on the front lines of defense (“Invisible”). Increasingly over decades child soldiers have been used as combatants in the warzone (“Invisible”). The reason why some of these children aren’t recognized is because when they are little they are killed or severely injured and left to die. The teenagers look closer to an adult so it is harder to recognize.