Millions of children worldwide are affected by armed conflict. They are confronted with physical harm, violence, danger, exploitation, fear and loss. Many children are forced to escape, some witness the death of loved one and some are forced to pull the trigger themselves. Communities are ripped apart and can no longer provide a secure environment for children. Adults are busy surviving; parents have little time for their children. Schools and playgrounds are damaged or taken over by armed groups. During war, children rights are violated on a very huge range; their rights to be protected from violence, abuse and neglect, to live in dignity and be supported to develop to their full potential. As a consequence of war, children can lose their confidence, their trust in others and their trust in the future. They often become anxious, depressed, withdrawn, rebellious and aggressive because of what they experience during the war. .
There is a lot to talk about when it comes to effects of war on children. I would like to introduce few areas that are very important and considerably worse experiences that children pass through during the hard time of war. Some of the areas I will be talking about in this paper as effects of war on children are: death, injury, disability, illness, rape and prostitution, psychological suffering, social and culture loss and child soldier. Children have been victims of war all around the globe. As a result of war, I will be giving my own experience on how war has impacted my brother and me as children. We grew up in war zone therefore; we were displaced until we finally became refugees in a foreign country. War has shown us a different side of the world leaving us with no parents. I have learned not to share secrets or trust anyone just because of the negatives results of the war. As little girl, I went days and weeks with no showering because there was not sufficient water to drink, shower and cook.
Iran also used children during the war between Iran and Iraq in the 1980s. ... Children take the place of adult soldiers killed in war. ... After war, children are left with many deformities and wounds due to the intense violence of the war. ... War disrupts the relationships between children and parents. ... Many parents are often killed and their children are sent to war. ...
He also signed Adamson Act, providing 8 hours day to interstate railroad workers, and the Child Labor Act which limited children's working hours. As the war president, Wilson made a major contribution to America as Wilson immobilized platoons and establishing a series of war agencies. ... With the United States in the war, Wilson hoped to have a stronger influence on the peace settlement. On Jan.8, 1918 he presented his Fourteen Points, a comprehensive statement of war aims. It became a once a war weapon and a peace program. ...
I wish the World Wars, the Cold War, and the Holocaust did not occur, but it is what shapes America today and the society I live in. ... The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing ended World War II. After World War II, the Cold War shortly followed. ... Wars upon wars, slavery and women's rights to name a few. ... Children were taken from parents, families were torn apart with no sympathy whatsoever. ...
The traditional role of women in the family was forever changed as a result of the war; returning men suffered the effects of the war both mentally, and physically; and children's lives were forever changed, as families struggled to rebuild. ... Children were profoundly affected, although Canadian children did not witness the horrors that children in countries where battles were fought did. ... Although Canadian children were not eye witness to the destruction children were also not immune to the effects of the war. ... The family structure changed during the war, mothers went to work, ...
Whether it is a civil war or a world war, the results are always the same. ... Yet we still go to war. We keep on teaching our children about the horrors of the past, however, things tend to keep repeating themselves. We go through something horrible such as the Vietnam War and now we find ourselves going to war again. ... However, sometimes war can not be avoided. ...
Children! ... Children are used illegally and shouldn't have to experience war at such an early age. ... Children shouldn't become weapons of war just for a dispute between religions, governments or race. ... War ruins lives and bodies. ... The most horrific thing is that it is not the children's fault of the war and they are being punished for it. ...
There were more children than adults now, and the adults were about war and there were only a few like myself there to help them. ... "The children. ... When, if, this war is over, it must not be a war that has poisoned our hopes for the future. ... I lay there when he was finished and thought about all I had done for the children and thought about the war and all that had to be done afterwards, knew then that my love for the children, their needs, were the obsessions of my life. ... Told him how I would get out of my bed and go back to the frontlines to help the refugee children, and after th...
But that alone does not justify why over 500,000 Vietnamese civilians including women and children were killed during our involvement in the war. ... When U.S soldiers had rounded up and murdered hundreds of civilians mostly women, children and old men in an extremely brutal fashion, including rape and torture. Which after they dragged dozens of people, including young children, into a ditch before executing them with a machine gun. ... Now imagine innocent civilians including women and children being hit with this deadly substance just because they're village may have been suspected of...
