This reference examines the wide-ranging impact of military
life on families, parenting, and child development. It examines the complex family
needs of this diverse population, especially as familiar issues such as trauma,
domestic violence, and child abuse manifest differently than in civilian life. Expert
contributors review findings on deployed mothers, active-duty fathers, and other
military parents while offering evidence for interventions and prevention
programs to enhance children’s healthy adjustment in this highly structured yet
uncertain context. Its emphasis on resource and policy improvements keeps
the book focused on the evolution of military families in the face of future change
and challenges.

Included in the coverage:

• Impacts
  of military life on young children and their parents.

Parenting
school-age children and adolescents through military deployments.

• Parenting
  in military families faced with combat-related injury, illness, or death.


• The special
  case of civilian service members: supporting parents in the National Guard
  and Reserves.


• Interventions
  to support and strengthen parenting in military families: state of the
  evidence.


• Military
  parenting in the digital age: existing practices, new possibilities.

Addressing a major need in family and parenting studies, Parenting and Children’s Resilience in
Military Families is necessary reading for scholars and practitioners interested in parenting and military family research.