Why don't Western militaries want to kill child soldiers?

"The private military industry is a part of how the countries fight wars today ... The US government doesn't track the number of contractors used in places like Iraq or Afghanistan. read more

Most western militaries won't seek to kill child soldiers (for a lot of reasons). But that's very different from saying that they refused to fire on or kill child soldiers. Now, it is true that the use of child soldiers is immoral and needs to be discouraged. read more

6. Global instability; broad pools of children available for recruitment; continuing, often multigenerational, conflict; the proliferation of cheap, easy-to-use weapons; and weakened state structures fuel the trend of child military labor. read more