New Study Finds That Deployments Are Difficult for Families?

| October 31, 2011

To Be Clear! I have NOT read the actually study, only this single article.
Violence more common among kids of combat veterans

ATLANTA (AP) — A new study suggests that when parents are deployed in the military, their children are more than twice as likely to carry a weapon, join a gang or be involved in fights.

And that includes the daughters.

Had kind of a deju vu moment here when I read the article. Yet another headline putting even MORE stress on those deployed and their families. Seems to be something similar put out there quite frequently.

Even if every word and statistic were true and accurate Im’ not so sure there is cause for alarm, or such a headline… but one statement towards the end of the article calls the whole thing into question. I’ve emphasized it for you.

Additional research is needed to confirm the findings, said Reed, who has since left the University of Washington and is now a social worker with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. For example, the survey found that 10 to 20 percent of the adolescents in deployed families said they were in gangs. That’s surprisingly high — more like something seen in New York City in the 1950s. Perhaps a larger, more national study would produce a lower number.

Or perhaps singling out the kids of those deployed makes a good headline or looks good on a grant application?

 

Category: Geezer Alert!, Military issues, Real Soldiers

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The Dead Man

I’m not in a gang and I don’t think I’d get away with carrying around my 91/30. I’d like to see this study done over a longer period of time with a wider pool and with a third party providing the cases. This has the stink of a cherry picked study. I say this having been one of the children whose father was deployed and whose friends’ fathers and in at least one or two cases mothers have been deployed.

melle1228

First off Duh…. Second, my children often had problems DURING the deployment. There are lot of stress when you go from two parents to one. It would be akin to a temporary divorce where you didn’t see your parent for a year. Add into the stress that children understand the dangers of a war zone in part thanks to media coverage.

My children had minor problems while their Dad was gone, but as soon as the readjustment period was over- They came back to their normal selfs.

That being said–nope no violence, no gangs etc…Well except in Third grade where my son finally socked his bully in the eye(had to do more with my counsel than his Dad’s deployment-lol). 😉

Cedo Alteram

Another suspect study. Data please.

Supe

You can prove any agenda with a “study”.

Land-slide 0369

Praise God that my children are 5 and 8. I have taught them both kung-fu, they know better than to use it any other time than self-defense. They are enrolled in a Christian School, and have a mother that keeps them engaged in church activities.

This will be the first deployment for my 5 year old, and my oldest doesn’t remember the time I was in Iraq.

While this may be hard on children, I smell liberal BS all over this study.