Making Child militants

Decades of decades Children are easy targets for military recruitment due to their greater susceptibility to influence compared to adults.Some are recruited by force while others choose to join up, often to escape poverty or because they expect military life to offer a rite of passage to maturity.

Child recruits who survive armed conflict frequently suffer psychiatric illness, poor literacy and numeracy, and behavioral problems such as heightened aggression, leading to a high risk of poverty and unemployment in adulthood Research in the UK and US has also found that the enlistment of adolescent children, even when they are not sent to war, is accompanied by a higher risk of attempted suicide stress-related mental disorders,alcohol abuse, and violent behavior.