The US military’s “child soldier” training program is causing a crisis for the country, according to a former officer who spent nearly a decade in the field.“It’s a really big mess,” says Sgt. Major Joseph D. DiMaggio, a former Army…
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Why Is My Child Being Forced to Go to Military School?
In the early 2000s, children in Iraq began arriving in the United States to be educated in the military, which included schools for girls.While some of these schools were relatively rudimentary, many of the children’s experiences with the military were…
Child Soldiers and their Families in the UK: A Child Soldier in the Making
The number of child soldiers is on the rise in the world.With a global population of nearly 1 billion people, it is estimated that over 300,000 children have been recruited by the armed forces in the last 20 years.Many of…