[Via Philobiblon]

Not a new article, but an outline of the explosion of the use of children to fight wars that’s well worth noting.

In the isolated instances in the past when children were used on the battlefield, they were generally boys. Now, while the majority of child soldiers are still male, roughly 30 percent of the world’s armed groups that employ child soldiers include girls.

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