In your opinion, do child soldiers really have a choice?

Children enrolled by force into armed opposition groups often have little choice but to remain and fight. In Uganda, for example, if children abducted by the LRA do manage to escape or surrender, they may face the wrath of the Government. read more

Most people would assume that there was no choice in the matter and if you did have a child there would be no way you would give your child away. read more

Supporting child soldiers would put us back in the stone age where children have to do work and society can't improve. This is the worst idea, a million times worse than child labor, and I don't know why you would propose it. read more

These children are also drugged by their commanders with a drug called brown-brown, it's a mixture of gunpowder and cocaine. These children are very different from child criminals because the child criminals had choice and child soldiers don't have a choice. Either they kill OR get killed or tortured. read more