Military Children's Difficulty with Reintegration After Deployment: A Relational Turbulence Model Perspective

Various aspects of couples' relationships can affect their children in different ways. To better understand how certain aspects within military couples' relationships impact their children after reintegration, couples were surveyed on topics that included depressive symptoms, relationship uncertainty, interference from a partner, and on the difficulties their oldest child had during reintegration. Results suggest parents' difficulties with reintegration are associated with the eldest child's reintegration difficulties.