While a caregiver's military status per se is not a risk factor for children's adjustment, deployment is a significant family stressor, which places children at risk for behavior and emotional problems. We hypothesize that deployment (i.e.
Exposure of one parent to combat, reintegration, and further deployment is hypothesized to impair parenting by influencing parents' emotion regulation capacities.
Although recent scholarship has emphasized the importance of examining the rewards of raising children in understanding variations in psychological consequences of parenthood, empirical research remains focused on the demands of parenthood.
A nationally representative random sample of parents participated in a study examining the association between age of children and adult psychological well-being.
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is prevalent among users of the Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system. Effective approaches to involving family in care for PTSD are critical because family functioning both affects and is affected by treatment outcomes.
Multifamily group approaches (such as REACH: Reaching out to Education and Assist Caring, Healthy Families) to care for Veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are both critical and effective, as they involve family members who are also affected by and affect treatment outcomes.
This study examines the relationships among nonresident fathers' financial support, informal instrumental support, mothers' parenting and parenting stress, and their children's behavioral and cognitive development in single-mother families with low income.
Single mothers and their children were followed over the first five years of the child's life to examine the relationships among nonresidential fathers' financial and informal instrumental support, mothers' parenting and parenting stress, and their children's behavioral and co
This article summarizes results from a child care survey of military families conducted by the RAND Corporation in 2004 and draws policy implications for the military child care system.
Survey data from military families with children aged 12 years and under were utilized to evaluate the effect of childcare issues on military readiness and retention.