Some are apt to be routine and without event, but just as many would be dangerous. The lessons learned by individual families, unit leaders and by community human service providers have helped to develop a professional, military culture and community support system to sustain the military family and help promote military readiness during the deployments (Bell and Schumm, 139-150)
Some are apt to be routine and without event, but just as many would be dangerous. The lessons learned by individual families, unit leaders and by community human service providers have helped to develop a professional, military culture and community support system to sustain the military family and help promote military readiness during the deployments (Bell and Schumm, 139-150)
The children with the most risk are between one and two years-old. The killers are usually male (Eckhart, 2005)
Their chapter presents the results from a 1996-1997 survey of over 6,000 military adolescents which address issues of physical and mental health, antisocial behavior, drug and alcohold use, educational experiences, peer relations, family satisfaction, and military related perceptions and experiences of these adolescents. According to the authors, their results are generally consistent with comparable findings from civilian young people in similar situations (Jeffreys and Leitzel 225)
The mission of the center is to provide research-based materials, tools, trainings and other kinds of support to assist the Army and Marines proactively to prevent family violence. The center operates through a cooperative agreement with the Extension Service of the United States Department of Agriculture and the Department of Defense (Lang, 1997)
"Nobody's doing enough. We need ongoing research and ongoing support (Levin, 2007)
Since the FAP began at Fort Hood, awareness classes to soldiers increased from 40% of units being reached to 100% or above of all units reached during fiscal year 2002. During that year, the Fort Hood Extension Agents briefed 85% of individuals assigned to the units they are responsible for (Martin)
At Texas military posts, "Improved reporting and detection of child maltreatment in military families, rather than an increase in maltreatment, could also have caused the jump in maltreatment cases that we observed. However, there was no comparable jump in maltreatment in the civilian families over this time, which suggests that increased rate of deployment is the probable cause (Nauert)
The lessons learned by individual families, unit leaders and by community human service providers have helped to develop a professional, military culture and community support system to sustain the military family and help promote military readiness during the deployments (Bell and Schumm, 139-150). "The mission of the Family Advocacy Program (FAP) in the Department of Defense is to prevent, identify, intervene, and treat all aspects of child abuse and neglect and spouse abuse (Nelson, 51)
The rate of occurrence of maltreatment in military families was twice as high in the period after October 2002. The rate of occurrence of substantiated abuse in military families was twice as high in the period after October 2002 (the 1-year anniversary of the September 11th attacks) compared with the period prior to that date (Rentz, Marshall, & et al
4. Parents reported that one in five children coped poorly or very poorly to deployment separation (Sogomonyan and Cooper) Obviously, the War on Terror does not seem to be ending soon