Military Kids : The Pros And Cons Of Military Children

Being part of the military taught brats to deal with the changes in their life with humor and to be brave. They learned to not gripe about their parent's six-month deployment and taught them to rely on themselves. It also taught them that family was

Military families live all across the United States and more than likely you know at least one or you, yourself, are actually a military family. In the excerpt from “Military Children and Families” by Nansook Park, Park argues that greater attention needs to be established by psychologists towards military families in order to implement more effective programs to help support military families. To support her argument, Nansook Park uses an effective amount of pathos and logos, citing credible psychological studies and along with pathos and logos, she uses ethos as well.

Being in the military comes with plenty of benefits. Free education is probably the number one reason (how do you think I am paying for my school right now). You get to travel and see things you thought you would never see. Not only do you become physically tough but also mentally tough. You become prepared for the tough civilian life. Markos Moulitsas Zuniga repots that, “The Army taught me the very values that make us progressives--community, opportunity, and investment in people and the future.” Although many feel that they should not join the military it can really improve our lives and they way we think.

Military life can be a big amount of stress for children. There is multiple deployments where they go through long separations from their parents. Children even could experience a parent getting injured or possibly a death. That all is the reality for children who has a parent in the active duty military(website 1). There is such a huge impact on children’s mental health and high rates of trauma from them experiencing their parents going on deployments. More than two million American children have had a parent deploy to Iraq or Afghanistan. At least 19,000 children have had a parent wounded in action and over 2,200 children have lost a parent in Iraq or Afghanistan(website 1). After all of this occurring in their lives, it then causes a huge change in the child. These changes are lashing out in anger, changes in school performance,

called her discipline “tough love”. Yeah right, my ass it wasn’t tough love. She could dissemble

"The armed forces are for you". "Join the armed forces". "Fight for your country". These are the slogans that today's youth hear and see all over the media. They hear nothing but the positive aspects of the armed forces. They never stop to think what kind of life that soldier lives when he/she returns home after their time served.

Imagine at twelve years old being forced into war and having no way out. Then, quickly being dragged out and pushed back into society. Life was not easy and “normal” did not exist for Ishmael and his friends. In The Making and Unmaking of a Child Solider he shows the readers that he faced mental, physical, and emotional abuse before/after the war. Beah wants the readers to understand that life was not easy in Sierra Leone and not everybody made it out alive or sane.

Children all across world are being exploited as child soldiers. Everyday kids younger the age of 10 are putting their lives on the line mostly by force. ¨Over the last ten years, two million children have been killed in conflict. Over one million have been orphaned, over six million have been seriously injured or permanently disabled and over ten million have been left with serious psychological trauma.¨(Children In Conflict). A child soldier is a child with armed forces; they’re trained to fight, cook, be porters, messengers, informant spies, etc. Countries all across the world have been using children to fight, places like the United Kingdom, Africa, and Asia lean on children to do their dirty work regardless of what laws are put into place for recruitment age.

Education is not the only benefit that comes from service in the military. When many people first join, they are assigned MOSs. MOSs are jobs assigned to someone when they first join (Nance). Each MOS is specific and is usually related to the field an individual is interested in. He is sent to training immediately after basic training. Each branch of the military has different jobs, depending on what is available. Jobs can range from being a dentist to becoming a lawyer, but each has its own school for

Military children are in a league of their own, and at very young ages are thrown into situations of great stress. Approximately 1.2 million children live in the U.S. Military families (Kelly. 2003) and at least 700,000 of them have had at least one parent deployed (Johnson et al. 2007). Every child handles a deployment differently, some may regress in potty training, and others may become extremely aggressive. Many different things can happen, in most cases when a parent deploys and the child becomes difficult to handle, it can cause a massive amount of stress on the parent that is not deployed as well as added stress on the parent who is deployed. There are three stages of a deployment, pre-deployment, deployment, and reintegration,

Children all across world are being exploited as child soldiers. Everyday kids younger the age of 10 are putting their lives on the line mostly by force. ¨Over the last ten years, two million children have been killed in conflict. Over one million have been orphaned, over six million have been seriously injured or permanently disabled and over ten million have been left with serious psychological trauma.¨(Children In Conflict). A child soldier is a child with armed forces; they’re trained to fight, cook, be porters, messengers, informant spies, etc. Countries all across the world have been using children to fight, places like the United Kingdom, Africa, and Asia lean on children to do their dirty work regardless of what laws are put

I’d like to address Mrs Johnson and my fellow students. I am here today to talk about children being used in the military. Imagine you are an 8 year old boy. It is August 1914, and World War 1 is taking place. You are at your home with your family. Suddenly, Austro-Hungarian troops burst into your house kill your parents, your grandmother and seven of your brothers and sisters. You are taken away to serve in the 6th Artillery Division for the Serbian army. This is a true story experienced by Momčilo Gavrić, the youngest soldier in World War 1. Now imagine you are you at 8 years old. You are asleep along with your family. Soldiers barge into your house, kill your family and take you away to serve the army. Doesn’t give you a warm and fuzzy feeling does it? This could happen to any child if using children in the army continues.

The number of children in war is not known for sure, but it is estimated to be around 200,000 to 300,000, many of which are being forced into it. Children are involved in war all over the world and many of them did not make the decision to join. Not all children being used in war are male, but a majority are. Children being used in war is wrong and cruel because many children are not mature enough to make that big of a decision, and are just joining to get food and water to survive, also, most are forced into it which is illustrated in this reading.

The army has many benefitsthat anyone can use. A person can attend college and still be in the army or on active or reserve duty. The recreational facilities offer everyone something to do. They have clubs, an eighteen hole golf course, univeristy level libraries, and world class gyms. The vacation time that everyone gets starts at thirty days. Chooseto use the time it is needed. The army has free travel services and world calss resorts.(Benefits)

A steady decline in enlistment of youth in defence services poses a major problem leading to acute shortages of human resource requirements in the defence sector. Identifying the major predictors of a youth’s intention to join the defence forces will facilitate screening the right type of youth who possess the required life skills, attitudes and beliefs, potentials, temperament, and other personality characteristics relevant for discharging the duties and responsibilities of defence services. It was hypothesized that career intention would be predicted by their social, psychological characteristics such as Attitude towards Military and Self –Efficacy. Data was collected on Attitudes towards Military, Self-Efficacy, Subjective norms and Enlistment Intentions from one hundred and nineteen Higher Secondary School students in Coimbatore district, TamilNadu. Factor analysis was carried to find out the core dimensions of attitudes towards Military. Regression analysis revealed that the young adolescent attitude towards military and self-efficacy significantly predicted their strong intention to enlist in the defence services. The results showed that the following four core attitude dimensions such as “Self and Physical Development”, “Evaluation of Working Condition and benefits”, “Perceived risk”, and “Team work and Patriotism” significantly predicted the intentions to enlist in the defence services. Also, subjective norms and self-efficacy significantly contributes to the