What really surprised me from the presentations on child soldiers were the ways that they were made to join them, either military or rebel groups. The groups said that they are usually tricked into it or in some cases join voluntarily because of such poor living conditions, like in the Congo or in cases of ISIS. The fact that children would rather go to war than stay in the conditions they are in is a big problem and a cause for concern in today’s society. The second group said that at the moment there are around 300,000 child soldiers all over the world. While the UN and other groups like Amnesty International are doing small things to help the issue by creating awareness or creating slideshows to raise awareness. While these things do help more action needs to be taken as simply condemning the use of child soldiers isn’t enough as the people and groups who use them don’t tend to check if it is legal before doing it.