From today’s New York Times, an article from a report by the RAND Corporation about how milirary deployment effects children:
…Children in military families were more likely to report anxiety than children in the general population. The researchers also found that the longer a parent had been deployed in the previous three years, the more likely their children were to have difficulties in school and at home.
Those difficulties included things like missing school activities, feeling that people did not understand their problems, having to take care of siblings and struggling to deal with parents returning from deployment.
Here’s a link to the National Military Family Association’s website. They are the non-profit organization who orignally commissioned the study.
