Psycological Impacts
Exhibit significantly higher rates of _____ and anxiety disorders compared to non-conscripted peers living in war zones
What is depression?
Armed groups often raid villages, schools, and homes, taking children against their will, often at gunpoint.
What is abduction or kidnapping?
Under the age of 18
What is the age of a child soldier?
This should identify the main idea of the paragraph and acts like a mini-thesis statement.
What is a topic sentence?
a military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency.
What is a militia?
“Harming others, whether in military or civilian life; failing to protect others, through error or inaction; and failure to be protected by leaders, especially in combat—can all wound a person’s conscience, leading to lasting anger, guilt, and shame"
What is moral injury?
Once abducted, children may be forced to commit atrocities, sometimes against their own family members, as a psychological tactic to break their ties to their former lives and bind them to the group.
What is forced initation?
A child associated with an armed force or armed group” refers to any person below 18 years of age who is or who has been recruited or used by an armed force or armed group in any capacity
What is a child soldier?
Name two types of elaborating details used to support a topic sentence.
What are facts, statistics, quotations, definitions, anecdotes or incidents, examples, reasons, and comparisons?
generally refers to the illegal activity of transporting or exploiting individuals, or goods, for profit, often involving coercion, fraud, or force.
What is trafficking?
a mental health condition that's caused by an extremely stressful or terrifying event — either being part of it or witnessing it.
What is PTSD?
Recruiters use threats of violence, harm, or death against children or their families to force them to join.
What is coercion and intimidation?
True or False: Only boys can be child soldiers.
What is false?
This is the process of adding details that support a main idea.
What are elaborating details?
the forced removal or relocation of individuals or groups from their homes
What is displacement?
Many were given drugs or alcohol during their service to decrease fear and increase aggression in battle, and later in life, they would turn to similar things to escape the pain of their past.
What is substance abuse?
Others join armed forces to fight for a cause that they or their family support, often with little clear understanding of the implications of their decision.
What is an unclear cause?
Name two of the horrors experienced by child soldiers while in a militia.
What are
Danger of fighting and injuries
Not enough food
Strict punishment and threats
Often there are no doctors and medicines
Living apart from your family
No school
The first paragraph of a five-paragraph essay.
What is the introduction?
Illegal immigration in which an agent is paid to help a person cross a border clandestinely.
What is human smuggling?
Child Soldiers missed out on months or years of education
Child Soldiers may suffer learning difficulties when attempting to (re-)enter education or vocational training programs
What are developmental delays/cognitive issues?
Name at least two of the factors that make some children exceptionally vulnerable to manipulation and recruitment.
What are poverty, separation from their families, displacement of the family, living in a combat zone, and lacking education?
Name three of the various roles child soldiers perform outside of military combat.
What are
Cooking and cleaning for commanders
Guarding checkpoints
Carrying firewood and equipment
Cleaning and repairing guns
Carrying messages and spying
Suicide bombers?
What are the middle paragraphs called that lie between the introduction and conclusion?
What are body paragraphs?
the action or fact of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work.
What is exploitation?