129 military children aged 5 or under who were seen in a Hawaiian military psychiatric clinic participated in a study assessing the demographic profiles of its clients. Approximately 40% of the children had some developmental disorder.
66 elementary-school children (whose fathers were absent as part of service in the Canadian military forces) and their mothers participated in a study examining youth coping methods, maternally-perceived social support, and child adjustment and behavior.
In studying work and family life as overlapping domains, of interest is the impact of father absence created by work requirements.
Some Navy families are subject to unusual stress in that the active duty parent may be deployed for several months at a time.
118 Navy and 103 civilian children and adolescents who were psychiatrically hospitalized over a three-year period participated in a study to examine deployment as a risk factor for hospitalization. 60% of Navy youth who were hospitalized had a Navy parent whose job required long-term deployment.
100 single Air Force parents participated in a study examining their adjustment to being a single parent and their work, personal, and family demands. Overall, these parents reported successful adjustment to single parenthood while enlisted in the Air Force.
Drawing upon survey data from a probability sample of 157 single parents in the U. S. Air Force, this article examines the work, personal, and family demands and adjustments of Air Force single parents.
Children of incarcerated parents are exposed to factors that place them at risk for delinquency.
This study, like numerous others, found parental absence to be associated with problematic behavior on behalf of children.
The decade of the 1980s witnessed more than a doubling in the number of incarcerated individuals.