This book focuses on the key issues that affect military families when soldiers are deployed overseas, focusing on the support given to military personnel and families before, during, and after missions

Temporary parental absence is not unique to military families; various jobs in different industries involve work-related travel. Parental separation as a result of military deployment, however, differs from regular business travel, because it involves the risk that military personnel may be injured, …

Marital separation is ranked among the events that produce high levels of stress in families and couples. Military deployments cause temporary separations and require adjustments from all those involved, before, during, and after the separation, and often with few formal resources to prepare one’s self …