The Effects of Military Deployment on Early Child Development

An examination of the relationships between parental deployment and the cognitive and social-emotional development of preschool age children was conducted. The study divided U.S. Army families into two groups: the deployed group, in which one parent had been deployed at some point in the child’s life and the non-deployed group, where neither parent had been deployed. Overall, the study found that parental deployment had adverse risks for young children.