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The reconciliation of work and family demands places unusual stress on many single-parent families. Using a 1995 random sample of single fathers (n = 346) and single mothers (n = 364) in military communities, we explored the relationship between gender and the ability of parents to manage work...
Twenty suggestions by The National Long Distance Relationship Building Institute to help fathers strengthen their relationships with their kids when they have to be away for work or other reasons.
This fact sheet contains useful informationfor parents and family caregivers to help children cope during a parents' deployment. Experts in military medicine and family trauma who understand the impact of deployment on families have written this fact sheet. It is in the form of commonly asked...
Used in 2004 and 2005 for single OEF and OIF troops, Military Life Skills provides important communication tools, and a heavy dose of techniques for managing anger (based on research of most effective, best practices, techniques), for managing difficult conversations with curious civilians, for...
With current U.S. combat opertions in Afghanistan and Iraq, military families are facing an unprecedented level of stress because of repeated and lengthy separations. The impact on children of these separations from one or both parents depends to a large extent on the remaining caregiver's...
For some military families, the birth of a child can occur while the father is away in a dangerous place, and the joy of parenthood can become entangled in feelings of depression, disconnection, and hopelessness. Upon reunification, the new family system may cause confusion and discomfort as the...
This article examines the interdependent nature of infants and their parents who are experiencing wartime deployment and reunion. Research supports the contention that the cumulative effects of stress place families at risk; the experience of ambiguous loss changes as family roles change...
For thousands of years military children have been faced with many challenges that result from the combat deployment of their parents. These challenges are likely to be particularly burdensome to infants, toddlers, and preschoolers because of their emotional and cognitive immaturity, their...
This picture book explains the deployment of fathers in the Navy and explores the feelings of their children when they are gone. Told through the viewpoint of a little girl, it discusses the hardship children face while fathers are away, the importance of the work fathers do in the military, and...
This book shares the stories of military families who have reunited after a deployment. Service members, spouses, parents, fiancées, and children tell of the joy and anxiety of homecoming, the adjustments of living together again, and how they coped with anger, depression, posttraumatic stress...