Economic+Impact-CS

__** Economic Impact of Child Soldiers: **__ One of the main reasons child soldiers exists because they are inexpensive. Using child soldiers is more common now because poor countries can only afford to hire soldiers that will fight for little or no pay. They're armed with light, cheap weapons, such as the AK-47. This way, countries boost their army with inexpensive soldiers and weapons. These children are raised to think that they're doing something important, so someone will give them a gun and tell them to go and fight. The children feel like they're meant to do this, and the people arming them don't have to pay them.

Because all of the children are out fighting, they're not at home getting the proper education they need to strive in society. That means that the future will hold less economic opportunities, both for the children themselves and their country. The economic potential of their country will be substantially reduced if all of their children are out at war instead of learning and developing.

The wars that these child soldiers are fighting in the DRC are destroying the economy of that country. All of the money that is being (legally and illegally) spent on weapons and aids for warfare, and all of the funds that'll be needed to cleanup after all of the fighting, are going to run this country into an even bigger hole than it's already in.