He leads programs to improve military families» access to and use of evidence - based mental health services and is an investigator for the Millennium Cohort Family Study, a longitudinal
study of military families and their functioning.
Thank you both so much for joining us and sharing this crucial
study of military families and veterans.
A study of military families, in which co-sleeping is common because fathers (and, nowadays, mothers) are often away from home for extended periods, found that children who had coslept as babies received higher evaluations of their comportment in school and exhibited fewer psychiatric problems.
Not exact matches
They have
studied how «secondhand sugars» found in breast milk might negatively affect a baby's future body weight, how a concussion might interrupt a child's normal brain development and how teens in
military families are at higher risk
of depression and suicidal thoughts.
Family - level preventive intervention can lead to improved behavioral health outcomes for
military families affected by wartime deployment, a new
study published in the January 2016 issue
of the Journal
of the American Academy
of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP) reports.
«While incidents
of child abuse and neglect among
military families are well below that
of the general population, this
study is another indicator
of the stress deployments place on soldiers,
family members and caregivers,» said Karl F. Schneider, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary
of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs.
A new
study, published in the New England Journal
of Medicine,
studied 1,500
military families stationed all around the world.
The
study, published in the Journal
of the American Medical Association, analyzed data from over 1,500
military families who were stationed at about 40 different
military bases all around the world.
The overseas schools were not part
of the
study, because they are the only schools available to
families living on
military bases abroad.
A 2010
study of children from
military families during the War on Terror found «wartime parental deployments can be one
of the most stressful events
of a child's life.»
Mandy Rogers Horton
studied at Anderson University, IN, The Queen's University
of Belfast, The Chautauqua Institute, NY, and earned an MFA from American University, Washington D.C. Growing up in a
military family, frequent moves and travel in the US and Europe, left her with a fascination
of culture and languages.
Resilience in
Military Marriages Experiencing Deployment Anderson, Amanor - Boadu, Stith, & Foster (2013) In Handbook
of Family Resilience Explores findings from a
study involving seven couples from three Air Force installations who had strong marriages after deployments and found the participants had strong marriages before deployment.
In 2010, more than 1 in 5 children were reported to be living in poverty.6, 10 Economic disadvantage is among the most potent risks for behavioral and emotional problems due to increased exposure to environmental, familial, and psychosocial risks.11 — 13 In
families in which parents are in
military service, parental deployment and return has been determined to be a risk factor for behavioral and emotional problems in children.14 Data from the 2003 National Survey
of Children's Health demonstrated a strong linear relationship between increasing number
of psychosocial risks and many poor health outcomes, including social - emotional health.15 The Adverse Childhood Experience
Study surveyed 17000 adults about early traumatic and stressful experiences.
She is interested in both basic - science and applied research and her research projects include
studies on commitment, cohabitation, effects
of conflict and
family instability on children, domestic violence, effectiveness
of relationship education, mechanisms
of change in couple interventions, infidelity,
military couples, and relationship processes and psychopathology.
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In this section you will find basic resources about who can adopt, things to consider before adoption, an explanation
of the many adoption choices available (including domestic, intercountry, and open adoption), home
study requirements, finding an agency, adoption by different types
of families (including single; stepparent; transracial / transcultural;
military; or lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT)
families), and assistance with adoption expenses.
John Crouch from The
Family Law News Blog reported on a randomized
study recently completed in the
military which had a control group
of couples that did not take classes, and randomly assigned couples who did take marriage education classes.
Her research projects and collaborations include 1) basic science
studies on commitment, cohabitation, aggression, infidelity,
family background, relationship processes and psychopathology,
military families, and adolescent and child adjustment as well as 2)
studies on the effectiveness
of preventive relationship interventions for couples and individuals (including gene - environment interactions).
A growing body
of evidence suggests that stressors associated with war - related events may predispose youth to adverse outcomes.10 - 17 This stream
of research is consistent with
family systems theory, which suggests that the experiences
of a
military - connected parent will affect the functioning
of youth in that
family system.18 Although some
studies have considered the impact
of military life during wartime, 12,17,19 to our knowledge, most researchers have examined negative outcomes associated specifically with deployments.1, 7,20 These
studies have examined the psychosocial functioning
of children during the deployment
of a parent4, 14 or following 1 or multiple deployments.11, 13,21 Although many
military - connected youth fare relatively well despite stressors, these
studies concluded that a sizeable proportion appears to struggle with experiences
of deployment and other war - related stressors.
In the
study, HomeUnion compared the cap rate, which is the relationship between an investment property's net operating income in the first year
of ownership and its purchase price,
of single -
family rental homes near
military bases with active duty populations
of 15,000 or higher.