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...wants to spend more time with her friends then her family." As the Durr clan works together to find their old rhythm, Eric Durr can breathe a sigh of relief that he is no longer a single dad juggling roles or competing with an absent wife. "The deployed parent is the hero and the home parent is the heavy," he explains. For now, Stephanie and Steve have two parents at home, and the portraits of Eric and Heather can be retired from their place of honor in the dining room, until further notice...
Rates of neglect and abuse of the children of servicemen and women rose 42% within the family when the enlisted parent was deployed on a combat mission, according to a new study led by senior health analyst Deborah Gibbs of RTI International, a research institute in North Carolina. Previous studies have shown an association between combat-related deployments and higher levels of stress in the family, and it is this stress that is thought to play a major role in the maltreatment of children by the parent who stays home...
...harvested data from the U.S. Army Central Registry of 1,771 families worldwide with at least one instance of child neglect or abuse between Sept. 2001 and Dec. 2004, a period during which many soldiers were deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq. The results show that a staggering 1,858 parents had maltreated their children during that period - boys and girls in equal numbers, with an average age of 6. Nearly 10% of those parents neglected or abused their children on more than one day. The number of times a parent was deployed, however, whether once or twice, did not significantly...
...stay-at-home parent certainly begins to feel that pinch, either in forms of depression or neglect situations," says Johnson. "Even though [these families] are resilient, I think that they know that these deployments are taking a toll...
According to Johnson, the Army has invested more than $100 million this year in networks of programs to help the parent at home - particularly young mothers - deal with stressful parenting issues, from changing diapers to calming crying babies, with the help of nurses, counselors, chaplains, social workers and army community service staff. Some of that assistance, from phone counseling to in-person guidance, can be found through MyArmyLifeToo.com. Johnson says that the message the Army hopes this study will convey is "that families that know about these services make a special effort to tell their friends and neighbors about what...