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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about 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.
I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war.
I don't think I'm against all wars, but you'd have to have a damn good reason to send your son or daughter to fight, or to go yourself. So often, we are lied to and manipulated by our governments for their own very cynical reasons.
Sending our youth to war is wrong.
When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders - to decide to send our kids to go off and kill and die for us.
I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids.
There's a big thing in Canada that parents need to talk to their children about drugs and sex. I don't think talking to your kids about war is any less important than that.
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
A war is justified if you're willing to send your son. If you're not willing to send your son, then how do you send someone else's?