Many things that happen in our world make me shudder, but few disturb me as much as the use of child soldiers. Every few months, I see a major news organization run a story on child militias, but for the most part, the terrible things being done to these children are ignored by the media. For those who don’t know, children are used as soldiers across the world in conflicts. Amnesty International estimates there are a quarter of a million child soldiers in the world today.