MFRI contributing authors studied military family help-seeking activities with regard to children’s problems. Specifically, they examined emotional and behavioral problems in children younger than 10 years old. In general, the study found parents knew about these problems.
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Military fathers’ perspectives on involvement (2011)
This article describes military fathers’ range of involvement with their children, paying special attention to deployment separation and reintegration.
Support for Casualty Notification Officers (2008)
This document was created for Casualty Notification Officers (CNOs) preparing to notify family members that a military member has been wounded or died.
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.