 This forced families whose children were already a member of the organization to cooperate and thus turning them into accomplices, which increased the number of women joining the group, according to the publication, published by the Jamestown Foundation.The systematic kidnapping of children was at its peak between the late 1980s and early 1990s, when the PKK decided to force every family to send someone to serve their armed wings after the third Congress.Many kidnapped children were described as heroes in Serxwebun, the PKK's monthly magazine, after they were killed in the clashes.