Current research tells us that wartime deployment has a negative impact on the well-being of service members and their families. Few studies have looked at how parental deployments impact young children and their families. The authors of this article used deployment records, parent-reported information and examined the influence of deployment on military families with children under the age of 10.
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The many faces of military families: Unique features of the lives of female service members (2016)
Female service members’ family structures are very different from traditional military families with a male service member. In order to gain an understanding of the influence of women’s service on their family functioning, in-depth telephone interviews were conducted with 20 civilian husbands residing in 11 states around the U.S.