By Leanne Heine
The phrase "child soldier" invokes horrendous pictures in most minds: young boys abducted, brainwashed, and drugged to fight and kill their own neighbors; girls kidnapped and forced to be sex slaves, wives, or maids. In 2005, a global estimate reported that around 300,000 children in 30 plus countries were involved in armed conflicts; in 2009 the United Nations listed over 51 groups that used child soldiers in armed conflict during that...
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