It's certainly the case that you have to understand that not all children are forcibly taken, but we also want everyone to understand that the lack of choices exists, whether it's because there isn't an opportunity to go to school, the economic situation, loss of parents, etc. There are many of those factors that exist and certainly should be understood. However, in all of these instances, the adults who use and recruit them are responsible for their being employed.
Just because a child makes a difficult "voluntary" decision—and we say “voluntary” in quotation marks because it's based on a very limited set of options that they may have—it should be understood, and it's incredibly important, that these children often don't know what they are choosing. Many will talk about the fact that once they are in the armed group it's like they've lost all sense of why they originally were there, because it doesn't make sense anymore and they had no idea of the long-term situation they were going to be in, etc., and the consequences of that, which we, as parents here in this country, can understand.