Rehabilitation for Child Soldiers
There are many reasons why child soldiers need rehabilitation,one reason being PTSD, this is a psychological disorder that affects the mind after seeing traumatic things, for example if a soldier were to see war for 5-10 years. For example, some kids were forced to kill their families.Drugs played another role in gaining children's trust during the war, high powers/older soldiers would give the kids drugs and tell them it gives them power. Some kids even had addictions to kill, can you imagine your 10 year old wanting to kill another human being, scary right? This power that the kids think they have is then converted onto the battlefield, causing …show more content…
“PTSD stands for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, It's one of the first obstacles that former soldiers have to get over, especially child soldiers. Studies and test from the African Health Sciences show that there was a total of 102 children, 58 girls and 44 boys, 89 children (87.3%) out of the hundred showed to have ten or more war-related traumatic psychological events. 55.9% of the children suffered from symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, 88.2%, symptoms of depressed mood and 21.6% had various forms of physical disability. Nearly half of the children (42.2%) reported a positive family history of severe mental illness; 10.8%, a family history of suicide; 22.5%, a family history of suicide attempt; and 45.1%, a family history of alcohol abuse. Children who experienced 10 or more traumatic war events were more likely than the rest to experience depressed mood. Return through a reception center or through a cleansing ritual did not protect against depression” (“Post”). These statistics tell what war can do to the mind, especially a child. Adults struggle with PTSD and they have issues fitting into a community afterwards because of what they have experienced. With that being known the effects of war on child will be worse. With what they have seen and experienced, their minds would have no way of recovering from such trauma. Their ways of coping could lead to more dangerous …show more content…
These kids were taken advantage of and not properly taught. Their actions even though carried out by themselves were not their own actions because of they influence and false idea that the people in charge of the war gave them. Although children may not seem innocent because of the changes they had to make to adapt to the situation so they can live. The issue lies with the commanders of the war. The people in charge should deal with the punishment. They took away what little those children had. They took away the children’s innocence and childhood. They turned the children into killing machines and those responsible should look at themselves and question why they did
There are many reasons why child soldiers need rehabilitation,one reason being PTSD, this is a psychological disorder that affects the mind after seeing traumatic things, for example if a soldier were to see war for 5-10 years. For example, some kids were forced to kill their families.Drugs played another role in gaining children's trust during the war, high powers/older soldiers would give the kids drugs and tell them it gives them power. Some kids even had addictions to kill, can you imagine your 10 year old wanting to kill another human being, scary right? This power that the kids think they have is then converted onto the battlefield, causing …show more content…
“PTSD stands for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, It's one of the first obstacles that former soldiers have to get over, especially child soldiers. Studies and test from the African Health Sciences show that there was a total of 102 children, 58 girls and 44 boys, 89 children (87.3%) out of the hundred showed to have ten or more war-related traumatic psychological events. 55.9% of the children suffered from symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, 88.2%, symptoms of depressed mood and 21.6% had various forms of physical disability. Nearly half of the children (42.2%) reported a positive family history of severe mental illness; 10.8%, a family history of suicide; 22.5%, a family history of suicide attempt; and 45.1%, a family history of alcohol abuse. Children who experienced 10 or more traumatic war events were more likely than the rest to experience depressed mood. Return through a reception center or through a cleansing ritual did not protect against depression” (“Post”). These statistics tell what war can do to the mind, especially a child. Adults struggle with PTSD and they have issues fitting into a community afterwards because of what they have experienced. With that being known the effects of war on child will be worse. With what they have seen and experienced, their minds would have no way of recovering from such trauma. Their ways of coping could lead to more dangerous …show more content…
These kids were taken advantage of and not properly taught. Their actions even though carried out by themselves were not their own actions because of they influence and false idea that the people in charge of the war gave them. Although children may not seem innocent because of the changes they had to make to adapt to the situation so they can live. The issue lies with the commanders of the war. The people in charge should deal with the punishment. They took away what little those children had. They took away the children’s innocence and childhood. They turned the children into killing machines and those responsible should look at themselves and question why they did