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Military Couples and Divorce

 

Some of the issues that are military related include deployments.
             Each day a military member is deployed is a day away from his/her family. A day that a child is goes without his/her parent(s), a day that a wife or husband is away from one another. A deployment is another day closer to becoming strangers vice friends, a day where resentment comes closer to the front door and day of loneliness. Each day of deployment can bring divorce closer to reality.
             Military deployments pose an even more excessive extent of separation. An examination of the effects of Department of Defense (DOD) related parental separation on spouses requires comprehension of particular circumstances, which pertain to military life. .
             According to the National Center for Children in Poverty (2010), DOD families fall into these exact classifications:.
             1. DOD active duty and Coast Guard Active Duty.
             2. Ready reserve standby reserve and retired reserve.
             3. DOD civilian personnel.
             According to the Department of Defense (2010), since the attacks on September 11th of 2001, almost 2 million men and women of the armed forces have been deployed, with nearly one third of them having served, at least twice, in a hotbed for current conflicts. As tours get extended and back-to-back deployments to war zones accumulate, the outcome of such deployments on these families is of magnifying concern. Wartime deployments are quite possibly the most trying occurrences for a military family. They undergo increased proportions of mental health and trauma related obstacles.
             Military deployments comprise of three separate periods, pre deployment, deployment, and post deployment. The pre-deployment period, which is preceding the military members going, can frequently be distinguished by an absence of definite facts. During the deployment period itself, family members must become acclimated with their current lives, possibly obligating the parent left at home to adopt the other's responsibilities (Tunac De Pedro et al.


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