War affects children in all the ways it affects adults, but also in different ways. 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 – relatives or an
orphanage. A certain proportion of war-affected children lose all adult protection –
“unaccompanied children,” as they are known in refugee situations.
Second, impacts in childhood may adversely affect the path of children far
more than adults. Consider children who lose the opportunity for education during war,
children who are forced to move into refugee or displaced person camps, where they wait
for years in miserable circumstances......
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