No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There's no pride in having been a child soldier.
I have seen America's sons, daughters, mothers, and fathers fight valiantly for our freedom and pay the ultimate sacrifice to defend us.
I hope my own children never have to fight a war.
In 'Off to War, Voices of Soldier's Children,' kids from Canada and the United States talk about what it is like when their mother or father goes off to war - and comes home again.
A lot of child soldiers lose their minds.
More and more, we have been able to present the argument that recruitment of child soldiers is a social breakdown that leads to atrocities, because that's why they get them.
I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war that claimed the lives of my mother, father and two brothers. I know too well the emotional, psychological and physical burden that comes with being exposed to violence as a child or at any age for that matter.
It's one thing to say you're for the war; it's another thing to send your kid to war - your daughter or your son.
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
We often fight wars with our young.
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