Dangerous Playgrounds

Imagine you in your comfortable house watching TV on your leather sofa, and then suddenly, armed soldiers break down your door and take you away for war. In over thirty countries kids as young as seven are forced out of their homes to go to war. These children are missing out on their education, and are also beaten up and even killed every day. Although these children may be learning something, they are not learning their every day subjects. Child soldiers should be banned at once because millions of those kids don’t live up to be twenty, and fulfill their dreams.

Child soldiers are suffering every day, and are doing things that shouldn’t be done. “The judge marked guilty sign on an eleven year-olds girls head when she was caught pretending to be a spy to get out of war; they told me to shoot her, I hesitated… Then I did. That said it proved my loyalty, but to me it didn’t mean anything” Says a seventeen year–old soldier. These things shouldn’t be done to kids. Further more 300,000 under the age of 18 are fighting frontline as soldiers with government armed forces on opposite groups in more than thirty countries. This issue is a big problem and should be handled carefully, but quickly since half of the kids are dying each day. Also others are supposed to go to school are used as spies, messengers, and even someone’s own servant.

Child soldiers are wrong and horrifying, these children have their minds focused on protecting their country and are forgetting about protecting themselves. Although there things you can do to stop it. Such as: Write a letter to the government about child abuse rights, start an organization to help, and encourage your government to monitor the situation to help them. School may be a child’s key to success, but for children at war there isn’t a key to anything but death.