The return home of a Service member from tour of duty can be stressful for military families (Bowling & Sherman, 2008), but surprisingly little is known about how military youth communicatively experience a parent’s homecoming (MacDermid Wadsworth, 2010).
Researchers conducted interviews with youth of military families to gain an understanding of their experience of parental homecoming after deployment.
Objective: Commonly held attitudes concerning the effects of parental wartime deployment on children have usually been guided by stereotype, rather than scientific data.
In this study, the authors compared children and families with and without a deployed Service member-parent prior to and during Operation Desert Storm in an effort to determine the effects of Operation Desert Storm on military children and their parents.
This study examined child maltreatment perpetration among 99,697 active-duty U.S. Air Force parents who completed a combat deployment. Using the deploying parent as the unit of analysis, we analyzed whether child maltreatment rates increased postdeployement relative to predeployment.
Increased stress, including during deployment, may put parents at greater risk for perpetrating child maltreatment. Rates of child maltreatment, as well as type and severity of maltreatment, were compared pre- and post-deployment among Active Duty U.S. Air Force parents.
Objective: To conduct the first population-based study comparing child maltreatment rates perpetrated by civilian parents in military families before, during, and after combat-related deployments.
Child maltreatment is a serious concern for families, and it is important to understand factors that may influence maltreatment rates. Rates of child maltreatment by a civilian parent in a military family were compared before, during, and after deployment.
Introduction: This study reports on the feasibility of using validated mental health screening instruments for deployed Operation Iraqi Freedom military personnel. Methods: For a 3-month period in 2005, all service members (N = 296) who initially presented to the U.S.
Service members who presented to the U.S. Military Hospital Kuwait for an initial appointment participated in a study on the feasibility of using validated mental health screening instruments for deployed Operation Iraqi Freedom military personnel.