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.
Combining literature on transnational families, migrant workers, and expatriates, I suggest a reconceptualization of military service personnel’s labour during overseas deployment as transnational.
Objective: To describe communication issues experienced by soldiers in a combat environment.
The trends discussed above are likely to continue. The American active-duty armed forces are unlikely to grow larger and are probably going to get smaller.
Work-related-parental-absence is becoming more common in our society, however the literature has not kept pace with this growing trend.
Presents prospective data on 140 child and adolescent military dependents and 234 nonmilitary Ss to assess the validity of the "military family syndrome." The only significant diagnostic difference was that
Longitudinal data from kindergarten to 5th grade on both family involvement in school and children's literacy performance were examined for an ethnically diverse, low-income sample (N = 28
Longitudinal data from 281 children (collected from kindergarten to fifth grade) examined whether parental school involvement (participation in school activities) was associated with student literacy scores in a diverse, low income sample of families.
50 male, Australian Vietnam veterans with and without posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), 33 age-matched civilian males, and each adult’s oldest willing child (age range 16-30) completed surveys assessing family functioning, self-esteem, and symptoms of PTSD to examine the transgenerational tra