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How Does War Affect Children

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“ The world as a whole has been getting incrementally less peaceful every year since 2007. With the crisis in Gaza, the rise of Islamist militants in Iraq and Syria and the international stand-off ongoing in Ukraine, it can sometimes feel like the whole world is at war. Conflict arises because of the changing relations of numerous variables such as technological, psychic, social and intellectual. There are countries which are involved in no actual foreign wars involving deaths etc like North Korea but which are fraught by the most divisive and entrenched internal conflicts. On the other hand, UK, as an example, is relatively free from internal conflicts but has been involved in foreign fighting in Afghanistan. Moreover in Brazil and Costa Rica, the level of internal conflict may be the lowest possible but civilian access to small arms and the likelihood of violent demonstrations are worryingly high. One way or the other most of the states in the world are fighting among each other or against each for different reasons. Population is immensely affected when states are in conflict. A huge number of people lose the lives and their loved ones. Many are rendered homeless and helpless. Businesses abandon, education gets affected, health facilities are disturbed. So many people die of hunger and epidemic …show more content…

First, children are dependent on the care, empathy, and attention of adults who love them. Their attachments are frequently disrupted in times of war, due to the loss of parents, extreme preoccupation of parents in protecting and finding subsistence for the family, and emotional unavailability of depressed or distracted parents. The child may be in substitute care with someone who cares for him or her only slightly such as relatives or an orphanage. A certain proportion of war-affected children lose all adult protection, “unaccompanied children,” as they are known in refugee

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