There is a difference though. These sons and daughters are of accountable age when they get sent out to warzones; they get the choice to decide for themselves. Child sacrifice in the sense we've been discussing involves no such choice.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'