Military families often experience additional stress due to the military life style, and community support is an important factor that can reduce stress.
Soldier deployment can create a stressful environment for U.S. Army families with young children. Prior research has identified elevated rates of child maltreatment in the 6 months immediately following a soldier’s return home from deployment.
Deployment can bring extra stress for military families with young children; however, little is known about how Service members' and children's characteristics may influence the potential association between deployment and child maltreatment.
In the United States, nationally representative civilian studies have shown that BMI is associated with select sociodemographic characteristics. Active‐duty military personnel are not included in these surveys and the persistence of these associations in military personnel is unknown.
Military families frequently display remarkable resilience in the face of significant challenges, and yet deployment and parental separation are significant stressors for parents, particularly those with infants and young children.
Families are a key source of support for National Guard Soldiers, yet little is known about the influence of parents on Soldiers’ pre-deployment well-being. In this chapter, we examine the potential role family may play in the psychological well-being of National Guard Soldiers.
The present study investigated the mechanisms through which a parenting intervention for military families fosters positive peer adjustment in children.
This article discusses the child maltreatment in united states military families and how military Family Advocacy Program has given increased attention to the prevention of family violence. The U.S.
This study empirically developed a theoretical model of army wives’ resilience amid deployment. A sample of 18 women, representing army bases in Southern and Western parts of the United States, were interviewed about their experience of spousal wartime deployment.