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Originally Posted by DemolitionRed

Its pretty distressing seeing kids that are stressed and traumatized by an atrocity. Fortunately, kids tend to be resilient and do well with psychosocial counselling. Charities like UNICEF do a fantastic job; its social reintegration scheme helps theses men e kids enormously.

I don’t know what the answer is but I hope, if we ever ended up like Somalia, someone would rescue my children or future grandchildren. Fortunately, there are countries the world over that re-settle these families. We shouldn’t believe we do more than others. The question is, should any of us do anything and if so what?

I’m not going to pretend it doesn’t frighten me, it does because its too early to say what these children are going to turn out like as fully grown men. At the same time, I don’t think we should turn our back on them just because the atrocities are not happening on our doorstep.

I do sympathise with your feelings but, like many, my main concerns lie with our children and their futures. Most of these 'children' are not children they are, at best, young adults and, at worst, older men who have lied about their ages and it has been difficult to actually prove otherwise.

Many countries may be able to resettle these children, includlng the West, in reasonable numbers but with the combination of mass immigration and increasing numbers of asylum seekers, let's face it many of which are not genuine refugees, it is getting out of hand with many countries saying 'no more, they can't take any more, reporting numerous problems and incidents of violence , with several incidents carried out by so-called child migrants.

If we ever ended up like Somalia it would be because we have lost control of our borders and allowed too many problematic religious cultures into our country and changed its demographics. If religions such as Islam ever get a real hold in the West we could have Hugh problems in the future making the West a very unstable, unsafe place for all of us in my opinion.

It's not the future many want for their children.