In Sierra Leone in the 1990s thousands of children were captured by the Revolutionary United Front – the RUF.  The children were forced to endure violence and trauma of every kind.  Those children are now adults and many of them have children of their own. Professor Theresa Betancourt from Boston College has studied 500 of the former child soldiers. Book: 'Shadows into Light: a generation of child soldiers comes of age' (Harvard University Press, 2025)