Children In The Army Argumentative Analysis

Following the Leader
Joy. After having not seen your son for 6 years, finally, you have him again. You cry tears of happiness at the site of them, only to have them taken away again for another ten years. Your tears of joy now become tears of misery. This situation may seem unreal to you, but this is happening in the world every day. Children are getting stolen from their parents and childhoods, and families are being ripped to pieces. Many people would agree that this is not okay, yet it continues to happen over and over again. I, along with many other people, believe that kids who do have a choice about whether they were in the army or not should be given amnesty and helped be rehabilitated, but kids over the age of seventeen who consciously make the decision to stay with the war groups should not. …show more content…
According to the article “The Road from soldier back to child,” the youngest children are taken at is about seven years old. The younger the kids are, the easier they can be manipulated into believing the propaganda. The younger kids are, the easier to manipulate, because they want to believe in somebody. If kids are younger, they believe what they are being told. Most kids are also not strong enough to fight back (mentally and physically). This is why kids are the easiest to take and make follow the leader. Another reason why younger kids are better to take is because the leaders of these fighting groups know that the child soldiers who eventually end up being saved are not as harshly punished because they were young when they were forced into the military Sebastian Solzrano writes in “Link Literary Magazine” that “commanders might delegate the dirtiest orders to children because of their immunity to