Effect of Parents’ Wartime Deployment on the Behavior of Young Children in Military Families
Source: Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine

To our knowledge, this is the first study to (1) demonstrate an effect of parental wartime deployment in children younger than 5 years that is independent of the nondeployed parent’s stress and depressive symptoms and (2) to use parents and childcare providers as informants in this context. Our data indicate that children aged 3 to 5 years with a deployed parent experience greater behavioral symptoms than children without a deployed parent. Our data also indicate that children aged between 11/2 and 3 years react differently to having a parent deployed than those aged 3 to 5 years.

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