Military Spouses

The association between alcohol use and substantiated incidents of nonmutual and mutual domestic violence between U.S.

Military couples, because of their lifestyles, may have unique marital stressors.

30 Army and 30 civilian couples who were seeking marital counseling completed questionnaires at the intake session to examine the risks for specific marital problems in military couples. Military wives were more likely to be physically abused than their civilian counterparts.

The purpose of this study was to explore the question: Is a service member’s post-deployment marital satisfaction correlated with frequency and mode of communication during deployment?

The divorce rate for women serving in the U.S. military is significantly higher compared to their male counterparts and the civilian population as a whole.

African American armed service personnel and their families bear great burden in times of war in their effort to protect and secure the nation's civil liberties and freedoms.

Military deployments are stressful for service members and partners. Communication is an important factor in trying to maintain a relationship during these separations.

This paper examines the impact of military service and exposure to war trauma on marital patterns and problems in a stratified, probability sample of 1,259 nonveternas, era veterans, and Vietnam veterans.

Reviews research on wartime, long routine, and short routine marital separation, with focus on spouses' distress, coping, and reunion reactions. Spouses' reactions are interpreted from the perspective of J.