Military children face more emotional challenges as parental deployments grow longer, study finds
Monday, December 7, 2009 - 12:14
in Psychology & Sociology
A new study finds that children in military families suffer from more emotional and behavioral problems as the length of their parents' deployments grow. Researchers found that military children may suffer from more emotional and behavioral difficulties when compared to other American youths, with older children and girls struggling the most when a parent is deployed overseas.