This reference examines the wide-ranging impact of military life on families, parenting, and child development. It examines the complex family needs of this diverse population, especially as familiar issues such as trauma, domestic violence, and child abuse manifest differently than in civilian life. Expert contributors review findings on deployed mothers, active-duty fathers, and other military parents while offering evidence for interventions and prevention programs to enhance children’s healthy adjustment in this highly structured yet uncertain context. Its emphasis on resource and policy improvements keeps the book focused on the evolution of military families in the face of future change and challenges.

Parenting and children's resilience in military families : a twenty-first century perspective -- The impact of military life on young children and their parents -- Parenting school-age children and adolescents through military deployments -- Placing fatherhood back in the study and treatment of military fathers -- Military mothers -- The special case of civilian service members : supporting parents in the National Guard and reserves -- Parents' childhood exposures to traumatic events and current functioning in military families -- Child maltreatment and intimate partner violence in military families -- Parenting in military families faced with combat-related injury, illness, or death -- Parenting and the military : the case of Israel -- Interventions to support and strengthen parenting in military families : state of the evidence -- Prevention and treatment for parents of young children in military families -- Evidence-based parenting interventions for school-aged children -- Parenting programs and supports for teens in military families-- Military parenting in the digital age : existing practices and new possibilities -- How do military family policies influence parenting resources available to families? -- Conclusions and a research agenda for parenting in military families.