Even expert-prepared children suffer stress from a parent’s deployment

Evidence

Being aware of these challenges, she was surprised when her children had many of the same problems during their father’s deployment to Iraq. “They were still more stressed out than I’d imagined and about as much as what I was seeing in my office,” she told me during a posting in Ansbach, Germany. “I train people to help their kids through this! But still, using all the tools, you can’t make it not impact them.” — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 454