Impact of Parental Military Service on the Health of Military-Connected Children: A Case Study

More than 2.1 million children have had at least one parent deploy in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and/or Operation Iraqi Freedom. A total of 58% of enlisted personnel (active duty, reserve, or National Guard) have families, and 40% have two or more children (Brendel, Maynard, Albright, & Bellomo, 2014). Seventeen years of sustained military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan has placed an increased physical and emotional burden on military-connected children. Many dependent children are living with a service member parent who suffers from the physical and or psychological wounds of war (e.g., polytrauma, amputations, traumatic brain injury, posttraumatic stress disorder).

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