Now this percent is on the increase. This is one of the main causes of the long term effect that war has on the mental health and mental development of children. Number of prematurely born babes increased and resources for their protection decreased. Preadolescent and adolescent groups are disorientated in regard of values. This is because they have accepted universal adolescent culture, culture that came from the same countries that are now attacking their own homeland.
Young people are unable to see any prospective for themselves.
Children in SRJ are denied right to education despite Convention of Children Rights, and plan Education for All which prescribed it. This radical disturbance of educational process has very negative influence on children especially because it leaves them in something we could call vacuum. At the same time the surrounding is very disarranged and destructive. Quite a number of these projects were concerned with education for peace, tolerance and peaceful conflict solving strategies. Brutal aggression made all that senseless.