Military Families

Jamilex Rangel
Military Families
Studies find that couples who are in the military are mainly under 35 and the
spouse that stays at home to take care of the kids are mainly woman.
During deployment, the spouse at home has to take on a lot of stress
making decisions for the kids. Doing all the work for the kids and sometimes
even work and have a babysitter to make some other income.
Most military families feel sadness and sometimes metal issues form while
they are waiting for the other parent to come home from deployment.
Military Families
In society today since 2001 there have
been 2 million children who have had a
parent who has served in the military.

During service for the military, the parents

and children on average would move 3-4
times a year according to what base they
are located.
How are these A survey concluded that 30% of children
raised in a military family feel trauma,

children sadness, and hopeless.

affected?
37% of the children report that they feel
worried thinking about their parent whose
deployed and think about their parent safety
almost everyday.
How is the spouse
affected ?

The Graph that is shown on this slide is a

comparison of women who have been
diagnosed with a mental health issue that has
their husband on deployment compared to
women who dont.
How it affects the relationship between
parent and child?
Deployment destabilizes the function of Co-parenting because for co-parenting, it requires
both of the parents being present with the kids and taking turns on a routine deciding how
to raise the kids. The spouse that lives at home has to do all the decision making and it puts
more stress when the deployed parent comes back because a lot of military men or women
come back with some health issues or PTSD from deployment so makes it hard for the kids
as well.
It is also affected because the children's behavior is altered and not predictable because of
their parent continuously is not present for several months. Their emotions are wired
because they feel security when both parents are home but, when it's time for deployment,
the whole family doesn't have enough time to learn how to cope with their emotions and the
situation of that one parent leaving suddenly.
Improvements?
I would suggest that they would reduce
the times that military families move
each year.
Have the families see psychologist to
help them cope during and after their
other parents deployment.
I would also suggest maybe if the
family lives on base, to gather with
other military families 3 times a week
so they can have some kind of support
group to help them cope through their
emotions and stress.
 In this institution it is the parent that is

raising the kids at home the one who is in

control of everything. The role of the

Conflict
parent at home reinforces all the rules

while their spouse is deployed. They have

Analysis to pay all the bills and carries all the stress

of the family worries about the safety of

the parent that is away.

 The one who controls were the
whole family goes is the military
Functionalist soldier. Where ever his or her boss
sends him to be stationed, he or she
Analysis decided where the whole family
lives.
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