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Summary
Separation or decreased quality of parenting may affect child attachment during military deployment. Relationships between child attachment, mother depressive symptoms and quality of child care, and father involvement and deployment variables were examined. Fathers who were more involved and had less combat exposure and mothers with less depressive symptoms and higher quality of care had more securely attached children during the deployment cycle.
Citation
Posada, G., Walker, D., Cardin, J. F., Nyaronga, D., Schwarz, R., Wadsworth, S. M. (2015). Maternal Perspectives on Deployment and Child-Mother Relationships in Military Families. Family Process, 64, 651-664. doi:10.1111/fare.12165