P/P/65. Why do women and children always suffer in war?

This essay aims to analyse why women and children do always suffer in war. Essay investigates how women and children come to suffer in war in more obvious ways, along with an appreciation of contemporary trends and discusses the prevailing issues of child soldiers and women soldiers, and how they fit into the traditional gender roles. Essay concludes with the by assessing whether the dominance of men within the military and within actual acts of war, and the subsequent relegation of women and children to the private realm, will sustain throughout the twenty-first century.