War and Children

In today’s society, many innocent souls are lost due to man’s selfishness. The acquisition of power has led to great turmoil in the past and many more today. Since one of man’s most selfish desires is to dominate others they think are less intelligent and powerful than they are, such desires have had major impact on many innocent people. Usually, war the result of such situations and mostly those who are affected by such incidence are children since they are less powerful and helpless to defend themselves. Today, many of these wars are fought on the grounds of countries which are considered less powerful due to the fact that they lack certain types of resources to overthrow “the powerful” country. Ironically, most of these wars are fought in order for the “powerful” country to acquire a specific kind of resources from the “less powerful” country.

The disheartening result of these wars are the effect it has on civilians especially, children. Since war leads to major problems in the economy of both countries especially the country where the war is fought, many people tend to lose valuable possessions and for some, such loss can be fatal. Children in such situation experience the worse impact because once they lose their parents/guardians; it becomes hard for them to have a stable living condition. In such cases, hunger and emotional traumas can lead to death among such children since they tend to be homeless when such incidence happens. Many children develop serious deficiencies which are mostly fatal due to lack of good diet (malnutrition). The deficiencies can also lead to disability. It is very unfortunate that many children have to experience such unfortunate events but as hard as it might seem, there is still hope for change. With homeless children roaming the streets, some tend to become violent, die and others develop behaviors to fend for themselves which can be deadly as well. We might not have enough power to stop wars, but we have to start somewhere to end somewhere. We can learn from other’s mistake and the impact and not repeat it. Also, there are many children around the world who are going through such situations so let us do the best we can to help.