Children and War

Therefore, when I struggle to get little water, I rather keep it to drink than use it to take shower. I struggled form one point of life to another just to survive. Now I would like to call upon your attentions to ideally understand what war can do to children around the world. Most importantly, I will use my motherland Liberia as an example of most and well-known tragic war. There are few examples I will touch involving other countries around the world.
             Before I begin, as a child among other children, I believe that children are dependents on the care, empathy, and attention of adults who love them. Their attachments are frequently disrupted in times of war, due to the loss of parents, extreme worry of parents in protecting and finding survival for the family, and emotional unavailability of depressed parents. Impacts in childhood may harmfully affect the life path of children far more than adults. Consider children who lose the opportunity for education during war, children who are forced to move into refugee or displaced person camps, where they wait for years in miserable circumstances for normal life to resume, if it ever does. Now let me focus your attention on some of the major effects of war on children.
             One of the effects of war children suffer from is Injury. A child who was disabled during war may lose a limb, sight, and cognitive capacity and lose the opportunity of schooling and of a social life. Certain weapons affect them particularly a landmine explosion. Thousands of children suffer landmine injuries each year. Landmine is more likely to kill or seriously injure a child than an adult. Like I said before, let's take a look on how many children were affected during the resent war in Iraq. According to unicef.org, "An estimated 5,500 to 8,000 Iraqis, more than a quarter of them children, have been injured or killed by failed cluster bomb lets, and thousands of additional casualties may have gone unrecorded" ( New York USA April 10, 2012).