Using the 1999 Survey of Active Duty Personnel, this report examines the childcare arrangements used by military families with children younger than six.
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The Financial Landscape for Military Parents of Young Children (2004)
This report examines the income and expenditure patterns of military parents of children younger than six.
U.S. military children and the wartime deployments of family members (2017)
In 2014, 1.8 million American children lived in military families, representing only a fraction of the U.S. children exposed directly to parents’ wartime deployments over the past 15 years. In this article, we summarize recent research about military children in U.S. families and propose directions for research.
Accumulation of Risk and Promotive Factors Among Young Children in U.S. Military Families (2016)
This study focuses on strengths that reside within individual military children under the age of 10, while examining the risk and external (promotive) factors associated with each individual. Researchers found that risk factors, particularly parental depression, community poverty and cumulative risk, were more strongly associated with children’s outcomes than promotive factors.