[trelane]

> It's literally less traumatic for a child to be in an active war zone than to be separated from their parents.

Unless they happen to go to war themselves, vanquishing an evil queen with the help of a lion and becoming kings and queens, and reigning for a long while themselves.

Those kids seem to mostly turn out alright. Small sample size though.

[wizzwizz4]

I'm not so sure you're interpreting the data correctly: 1 in 4 such children become "silly, conceited" adults, forgetting all the lessons they learned on their adventure; and 3 in 4 develop vivid visions that result in them getting killed by a train.

[defrost]

And far far worse outcomes for those children orphaned:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-27/child-abuse-royal-com...

[jhbadger]

One of them (Susan) gets really into nylons and lipstick and is basically damned to hell for it, though.

[wizzwizz4]

I think the part where she abandoned people, including one prisoner, to a murderous gang of con artists / burgeoning cultists is more relevant than precisely what she abandoned them for. I'm reasonably sure that my interpretation is not how the author (C. S. Lewis) interpreted this part of the story, though.

Also, she wasn't damned by the end of the last Narnia book (rather, she's expected to be damned, but it is not yet certain).