Research has documented increases in child maltreatment at times when caregivers are deployed and rates have increased among military families since 2002, despite remaining stable among civilian families.
The aim of this review is to evaluate what is known about the impact on children of parental deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan.
Taking our nation to war has exposed a generation of military families and children to combat and its consequences.
Military Children who have experienced multiple deployments of one or both parents are more likely to have emotional and behavioral difficulties compared with their civilian peers (e.g., Chandra et al., 20
Throughout history, military children and families have shown great capacity for adaptation and resilience.
The scope of sustained military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan has placed great demands on the Armed Forces of the United States, and accordingly, military families have been faced with deployments in
This article examines the unfolding of experiences in youth programs that differed in the degree of youth and adult influence over program activities.
This component analysis used meta-analytic techniques to synthesize the results of 77 published evaluations of parent training programs (i.e., programs that included the active acquisition of parenting ski
Military children face situations that are unique. Their parents may be deployed at any time, causing separations and reorganization of the family.